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101 Innovative Grill Recipes

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:39:58 CDT

This Independence Day, don’t limit yourself to burgers and dogs on the grill. Mark Bittman offers up 101 innovative ideas for your backyard BBQ, from meat and veggies to desserts, in the New York Times : Tomatoes : Grill ripe tomatoes until hot and lightly charred; serve with olive oil, salt, pepper,...

Recipe Calls for 'Freshly Ground Black People'

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:04:18 CDT

Some 7,000 copies of an Australian cookbook are being reprinted after readers discovered a recipe calling for "freshly ground black people." Books already on the shelves will not be recalled. Penguin Group Australia spokesman Bob Sessions said he found the misprint "quite forgivable" because "proofreading a cookbook is extremely...

Lea & Perrins Original Recipe Discovered

Harry Kimball — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:53 CST

What looks to be the original and long-secret recipe for Lea and Perrins legendary Worcestershire Sauce has been found. A woman in England discovered it among her late father's leather-bound notebooks. He worked as an accountant for Lea and Perrins and found the 19th-century document in the trash at the...

Best Sites for Foodies

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:13:10 CDT

Aspiring foodies have thousands of resources available to them on the Internet, and Mashable lists 15 of the best sites for buying, cooking, and eating food: For locavores: Foodzie and Foodoro are online marketplaces for small, independent producers. Local Harvest connects users with farms in their area, while the Locavore...

Joy of Cooking a Fatty Read

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:32:41 CST

The venerable Joy of Cooking has kept up with America's expanding waistlines by porking out itself, reports the LA Times . A look at 18 classic recipes from seven editions found calories per serving swelled 63% in all but one recipe between 1936 and 2006. Example: beef stroganoff required 3 tablespoons...

Cooks' Books: Can You Try This at Home?

Victoria Floethe — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:18:00 CST

Restaurant cookbooks allow you to tap into a chef's genius, but rarely do they yield perfect re-creations of beloved dishes, notes food writer Lauren Shockey for Slate. Shockey tries her hand at recipes from a couple of Manhattan's renowned restaurants— Shopsin's, Carmine's, and Chantarelle—and goes on-site for a taste...

Top Kitchen Gadget ... the Cell Phone?

Katherine Thompson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:18:03 CST

Forget about trying to buy newlyweds the ultimate kitchen appliance: They almost certainly already have two. For both everyday cooks and professional chefs, the cell phone has become the go-to gadget, the New York Times reports. What other tool could combine the functions of timer, measurement converter, recipe generator, shopping-list...

At Deep-Sixed Prices, Consider the Lobster

Jason Farago — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:56:31 CST

Prices are dropping on all sorts of luxury goods—and lobster, now less than $10 a pound, is no exception. It’s the lowest price in 25 years, and might not last as fishermen give up on the trade. Spending $30 for the star of a weeknight dinner at home still...

Top-Secret KFC Recipe Flies the Coop for a Day

Matt Cantor — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:48:32 CDT

Usually guarded like Fort Knox, KFC’s 68-year-old recipe is being whisked away from company headquarters today while its vault gets a top-secret security upgrade, the AP reports. The yellowed document —handwritten and signed by Colonel Sanders himself —is stored with vials of the 11 herbs and spices."The smell is...