Recipes

America's Test Kitchen founder Chris Kimball offers advice for going "beyond the cranberry mold" this Thanksgiving.

Arts

Breaking The Cranberry Mold: New Ways To Savor This Seasonal Berry

12:02pm November 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving tradition. But if you're ready for a fresh take on this staple, why not try cranberries in chutney or cake? America's Test Kitchen founder Chris Kimball offers ideas.

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Preeti Mistry's biriyani-stuffed pumpkin.

National

So Long, Turkey: 3 Ways To Spice Up Thanksgiving Without The Bird

7:29pm November 23, 2015

by NPR Staff

Not everyone delights in turkey as the centerpiece to Thanksgiving. We asked three chefs around the country for their suggestions of winning alternatives. They came up with venison, pork and biryani.

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Thanksgiving dinner. So much room for hope. So much room for disappointment.

National

Cross-Cultural Menu Ideas For A Code Switch Thanksgiving

4:21pm November 23, 2015

by Leah Donnella

You want to love Thanksgiving food so badly. Here are ways make it happen.

Arts

For Expats In Afghanistan, A Cranberry Dish To Relish Far From Home

10:54am November 20, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

In 2011, about 100 Americans living and working in Kabul gathered for a Thanksgiving feast a long way from family. But a dish familiar to many NPR listeners helped bring them a taste of home.

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Kenji Lopez-Alt is managing culinary director of Serious Eats, author of the James Beard Award-nominated column "The Food Lab," and a columnist for Cooking Light. His first book is The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.

A Kitchen Science Savant Shares His Secrets In 'The Food Lab'

12:46pm November 13, 2015

by NPR Staff

Kenji Lopez-Alt left a restaurant job to test and write about the mysteries of food science. His new book details findings from how best to sear a steak to how to get more golden pancakes.

Former New York Times restaurant critic and Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl speaks in New York City in 2013.

Books
Arts

How Twitter And Cooking Saved Ruth Reichl After 'Gourmet' Folded

7:33pm October 15, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Food writer Ruth Reichl has a new cookbook called My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. It describes how she found her voice after Conde Nast shut down the magazine where she was editor.

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Michael Solomonov describes Israeli-style hummus as "a marriage of chickpeas and tehina."

Books
Arts

For Israeli-Born Chef, Hummus And 'Tehina' Are A Bridge To Home

3:57pm October 07, 2015

Chef Michael Solomonov sees his mission as connecting people to the food of his homeland. "That, to me, is my life's work," he says. Solomonov's new cookbook is Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking.

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Most fruits and vegetables — particularly after being cut — store better in an airtight container, Gunders says. And it's best to store them in see-through containers so we don't forget about them.

Don't Toss That Sour Milk! And Other Tips To Cut Kitchen Food Waste

10:57pm September 23, 2015

by Allison Aubrey

The typical American family tosses out some $1,500 of food yearly. From smarter fridge packing to sauteing soggy lettuce, a new book is full of tips to rescue edibles from landing in the trash.

After his mother-in-law's death, NPR's Marc Silver found her go-to cookbook, filled with her copious annotations to recipes. He used it to piece together her take on mandelbread, a Jewish version of biscotti, and other holiday favorites.

Keeping Loved Ones' Holiday Recipes Alive, Long After They've Left The Table

7:25pm September 22, 2015

by Marc Silver

NPR's Marc Silver lost his mother-in-law in 2005. But she remains a presence at family meals this Jewish holiday season, through his dogged trial-and-error attempts to re-create her favorite treats.

"Honey cake is considered the fruitcake of the kosher kitchen," jokes cookbook author Marcy Goldman. "The same resistance people may have to fruitcake, a lot of people have about honey cake." With her recipe — now the go-to recipe for thousands of famil

The Jewish Fruitcake: Honey Cake Is A Sweet And Stodgy Tradition

11:57pm September 13, 2015

by Deena Prichep

In symbolic hope for a sweet new year, many Jews will mark the start of Rosh Hashanah with honey cake. The cake is sentimental, but not always beloved. Here, a delectable update to the ancient recipe.

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