The rule underneath all of this is simple: the sauce has to stay on the pasta between the bowl and your mouth. Every shape below is a different solution to…
These are not luxuries. Each one solves a specific and recurring problem, and most cost very little spread across the number of dishes they improve.
1. Anchovies in Oil
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What separates these is mostly how they are baked — in a clay oven, on a hot stone, in a steam-injected chamber, or in a pan — and which grain…
The best street food is usually a single dish made by a single stall for decades. Here are fifteen from around the world, and what makes each one worth queueing…
Slow cooking exists because collagen in cheap cuts turns to gelatin given enough time at low temperature, which is why the least expensive meat makes the best braises. Here are…
There is a jar in a great many kitchens containing a pinch of thin red threads that cost more per gram than almost anything else in the house. Most people…