Rec Room

Minute Maid’s frozen pink lemonade concentrate is good already—but with one little tweak, it’ll rock your world.

Edible gifts are always the best kind (and the most fun to shop for).

Bugles, the oft overlooked crunchy corn snack chip, are the perfect vessels for dips and spreads.

While normal life and normal travel were largely off-limits over the past year, Disney World eventually found a way…

I visited Paris for the first time when I was 23. One of my best friends was living there. Our friendship was forged…

Imitation crab is awesome. And at this point, it’s something you can easily get at most grocery stores. It’s a…

My husband and I are both professional recipe developers who work from a home that’s shared with two teenage boys,…

Packaged stock is never as good as the homemade kind, but even though I know this, I rarely have quarts of fresh…

We always talk about dip like it’s made for parties, informal gatherings, or hootenannies, but let’s be honest:…

A few months ago, I published a weeks-long experiment involving 400 chocolate chip cookies and, presumably, a…

First things first: The Stuff is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I’m a perennial consumer of crap film, most…

I’ve extolled the virtues of pre-mixed seasonings before. Seasoning and sauce mixes aren’t just a weapon in the lazy…

Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.

I love sautéed mushrooms so much (I would marry them if I could, but that’s “not legal” and they “only like me as a…

On March 8, 2020, I stepped inside a mountainside coffee shop in Jay Peak, Vermont. That hastily made 16 oz of…

Over the last year, I can say with a clear conscience that I never once hoarded toilet paper. But I did stockpile…

I admire people with some level of uniformity in their consumption habits, for reasons like enjoyment, stress…

Walking through the baking supply aisle, you’ve probably seen it: Wondra. It’s a cylindrical blue can that has a…

The Whataburger honey butter chicken biscuit is, at its core, the request of a town drunk who foolishly uses one of…

One of the nicest things to drink on a cold winter night is hot buttered rum. In the Beforetimes, on quiet…