The awkwardness of dining alone is mostly anticipatory: it is worse in advance than in the moment, and it shrinks quickly with a few deliberate decisions. Here are twelve that…
Dessert is where cooking becomes closest to chemistry, and where small errors are least forgiving. Here are twelve from around the world, and what each one is actually teaching you.…
When something arrives from elsewhere, people tend to name it after wherever it came through rather than wherever it came from. Multiply that by a few centuries of trade and…
A bottle of champagne is under roughly five to six atmospheres of pressure. That is comparable to the pressure at a depth of around 50 metres of water, and about…
Sourdough occupies an unusual place in food culture. It is simultaneously the oldest form of leavened bread, a craft with real skill involved, and a subject about which an extraordinary…
Cheese is a preservation technology that turned into a craft. The differences between these twelve come down to a handful of decisions made in the first few hours and then…