Food & Culinary

For nearly a decade, one professional gear reviewer and their two residential "assistants" have put more than 30 different kids’ water bottles through the absolute wringer. From rigorous daily school…

All this week, the Eater Today newsletter has been dedicated to editor hot takes, offering a way to release the pressure valve of crankiness that comes with sweating your way…

For home cooks accustomed to culinary ambition, the boundaries of scratch cooking often stretch into the absurd. From homemade cream cheese and fig newtons to bagels, artisanal extracts, and the…

For many environmentally conscious consumers, composting has long been a frustrating exercise in good intentions. While practices like reducing plastic use, recycling, and relying on public transit easily integrate into…

You can tell a lot about someone by the way they talk about ranch dressing. Do they express a fierce Midwestern passion for the creamy condiment, or do they view…

When a recipe calls for nothing more than lemon juice, sugar, and water, suggesting that it requires precise calibration might sound like an exercise in overcomplication. After all, what comes…

The French 75 stands as one of the most enduring classics in the world of mixology, combining gin, fresh lemon juice, and Champagne into a bubbly, festive drink that remains…

The challenge of keeping children engaged and nourished throughout the school week has driven culinary planners to rethink traditional lunchbox staples. Some of the featured solutions take familiar favorites and…

Do you ever look around at the ingredients available to you, evaluate the dwindling energy you have left to give to the cooking process, and make the executive decision to…

For nearly two decades of publishing recipes online, a glaring omission has quietly persisted in the archives of the popular food blog Smitten Kitchen. Despite being a fixture of weekly…