Amuse Our Bouche is The Takeout’s column that answers your burning, boiling, and flambéed food questions.

Japanese Western-influenced cuisine known as “yoshoku” reimagines popular Western ingredients with Japanese staples. A particularly popular dish called omurice—a contraction of ‘omelet’ and ‘rice’—is a perfect example. A stalwart of children’s menus, omurice is also a popular dish amongst Japanese home cooks and in…

If there’s a straight-up perfect meal, it’s grilled cheese and tomato soup. Many people are unwavering in their love for this nostalgic duo; it is the ideal combo on a cold rainy day or when you are felled by a cold. The richness of the crispy buttery bread with the gooey melted cheese inside is balanced perfectly by…

When I was living in bigger cities—before I moved to a house with a backyard and got chickens of my own—Rent The Chicken is just the sort of service I would have impulsively signed myself up for, consequences be damned. It sounds bucolic: Fluffy hens frolicking around in the grass, taupe-colored eggs laid fresh every…

The pastel-and-glitter eggs were a beautiful Easter centerpiece and sure, your kids have fun making them. But now reality sets in: You have two dozen hard-boiled eggs in your fridge.

Have you heard about The Egg House? Everyone is talking about. Everyone! The New York Times, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, even a publication called HYPEBAE that I am definitely too old to read. What is The Egg House? You are correct: It is a house full of egg stuff, and promises to take the city by storm.

Multiple friends have shared with me this series of photos—which I’m dubbing Egg-ception—showing an Australian farmer who discovers a somewhat freakish egg-within-an-egg. They’re sharing these photos with me because they know I am a crazy chicken lady, and they know I will be able to explain this bizarre sight without…

Amuse Our Bouche is The Takeout’s column that answers your burning, boiling, and flambéed food questions.

How long are eggs still good after they’re laid? Currently, state standards in Arizona mandate that eggs be sold within 24 days, but a lawmaker has proposed extending that to a full six weeks, Arizona Daily Star reports.

In Acquired Tastes, The Takeout explores the food and drinks we can’t live without.

Panera Bread, the kid sitting in the front row of the classroom and raising his hand for every question, is being a total narc.

Making America great again is a war fought on many fronts, including chicken coops: The Trump administration is reversing an Obama-era rule that would, among other things, specify how much space organic chickens should have to live. The Organic Livestock And Poultry Practices Final Rule was announced on Obama’s last…

The following is excerpted from Lucky Peach’s newest book, All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World’s Most Important Food, in bookstores April 4. Read our interview with the book’s queen egg, Rachel Khong.

In Food Science, Dave McCowan from the University Of Chicago’s Department Of Physics answers our confounding questions about the mysterious world of food.

How can the mighty egg be simultaneously associated with such beauty and ugliness?

In How Do You Take Yours?, The Takeout solicits staff and outside expertise for secret tips on improving one dish.