AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarFor These Intrepid Gardeners, Every Seed CountsFood52 - Arati MenonAt the Experimental Farm Network, seeds don’t just put food on the table, they promote social justice, and ensure a better future for all. You can Grow Your Own Way. All spring and summer, we’re playing in the vegetable garden; join us for step-by-step guides, highly recommended tools, backyard …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarFennel Is, Without a Doubt, Our Favorite Spring HerbFood52 - Lindsay-Jean HardPlus, how to have fun with fronds. Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which we break down our favorite unique seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more. This week we’ve got fronds on the brain—fennel fronds, that is. You can find fresh fennel year round, but it really peaks during spring. Once you get …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarThe Best Ways to Use Lemon Balm at HomeFood52 - Lindsay-Jean HardWe wouldn't leaf you hanging. Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which we break down our favorite unique seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more. Thanks in no small part to Deborah Madison's Vegetable Literacy, it has become impossible for us to stroll through a farmers market without thinking about …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarA Hands-Off, Splatter-Free Way to Cook BaconFood52 - Gary SchiroThe easiest way to cook bacon is also the cleanest. It has been decades since my husband and I decamped from Metropolis and moved to the country, which means one thing: We’ve had our fair share of power outages. In 1996, just three months into owning our first home, the power went out in a freak …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarRedefining Identity, One Asian American Dish at a TimeFood52 - Shaan Merchant“Asian America” might not be a thing, but its food certainly is—and it’s as important as ever. In one of his popular YouTube videos for NYT Cooking, Eric Kim introduces his Sheet-Pan Bibimbap as “really chill.” Drawing inspiration from the simplicity of his family’s preferred midnight snack, Kim …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarShe Invented Banana Ketchup & Saved Thousands of Lives. Why Have We Never Heard of Her?Food52 - Amelia RampeThe legendary story of María Orosa, the Philippines' greatest war hero. I’ve seen the look on my friends’ faces when the words banana ketchup are uttered. Confusion, maybe even disgust. How can two things with such different flavor profiles exist in one product? Despite its seeming incongruity, …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarThe Best Place to Feel Lonely Is in a Bagel ShopFood52 - Maya KassuttoOne writer found solace and company in the most unassuming spot. In the loneliest time in my life, I spent a lot of time in my local bagel shop. I was living in Baltimore, a new city, and had just gone through a splintering breakup. As a middle school teacher living with two others, I was often …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarThe Four Essential Cooks I Turn to Again & AgainFood52 - thisoldchefNo matter where I'm stuck, one of these luminaries always gives me the answer. I have a cookbook collection that numbers well over 1,000 volumes. Seriously. And I use them. Not every single one every day, it’s true. But I read all of them—for inspiration, for facts, for specific recipes, for styles, …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarEverything You Need to Know About TaroFood52 - Lindsay-Jean HardGet to know a tropical tuber you might have been missing out on. Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which we break down our favorite unique seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more. Today: Get to know a tropical tuber you might have been missing out on. If you thought Jerusalem artichokes were …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarMarjoram Is the Most Underrated Herb, PeriodFood52 - Lindsay-Jean HardNo, it's not the same thing as oregano. Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which we break down our favorite unique seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more. Today: We've been stocking up on fresh herbs to get our spring fix. Next up, marjoram. Marjoram is like a thumb. (Stay with me here.) Earlier this …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarThose First Post-Birth Meals Are the Most Special—6 Parents Explain WhyFood52 - Rachel Tepper PaleyWhether chocolate cake, soup dumplings, or fenugreek-laden sabzis, these foods hold meaning far beyond their ingredients. In the days after my daughter was born, my husband made for me what I can only describe as the best BLT in all of existence. It was mid-July, and he’d carefully selected a juicy …
AvatarFood52AvatarAvatarWhy Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?Food52 - Caitlin GuntherThe history of America's most popular holiday bird. Growing up in upstate New York, I used to wonder why we eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Throughout the year, we’d see all types of animals daily: squirrels and chipmunks scurrying; deer innocently dropping their heads into my mother’s shrubs for a …