Recipes

Amateur cook and writer Maureen Evans has perfected the art of tweeting a recipe in 140 characters or less.

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Tweet In The Holiday With Recipes On Twitter

4:54pm November 17, 2014

by NPR Staff

Test your ability to tweet a recipe in 140 characters or less. Amateur cook and writer Maureen Evans tells us how she manages to do that, and breaks down her code in her Twitter cookbook, Eat Tweet.

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True cheddar cheese can take months â even years â to age. So Claudia Lucero created a faux-cheddar that can be made in very little time.

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How To Make A Faux Cheddar In One Hour

3:46pm November 14, 2014

by NPR Staff

Once Claudia Lucero had mastered rapid cheese-making, she knew it was time to tackle cheddar. But cheddar takes months, even years, to age, so Lucero devised a pseudo version: the Smoky Cheater.

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To make the best (and safest) burger, America's Test Kitchen recommends grinding the meat at home and packing it loosely.

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'Test Kitchen': How To Buy The Safest Meat And Make The Juiciest Steaks

2:10pm October 24, 2014

The Cook's Illustrated Meat Book gives tips on how to shop for, store, season and cook meat. Why shouldn't you pack your burgers too tight? Two America's Test Kitchen editors explain.

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Glowing tapioca pearls accompanied by spiders (made of chocolate drizzle), just in time for Halloween, by Luma Bites

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Glow-In-The-Dark Treats To Light Up Your Halloween

6:35pm October 22, 2014

by Alison Bruzek

Two entrepreneurs have developed new tricks to make food that's literally illuminating, using ingredients that are as natural and unprocessed as possible. It's just basic food chemistry, folks.

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Chef Ottolenghi Makes The Case For 'Plenty More' Vegetables

12:46pm October 20, 2014

by NPR Staff

Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi talks with Rachel Martin about the difference between supermarket hummus and Middle Eastern hummus and why he doesn't like to call his cookbooks "vegetarian."

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An Indian groundnut vendor waits for customers.

A Balanced Diet For World Food Day: Bugs, Groundnuts And Grains

9:47am October 17, 2014

Termites and mung beans are among the ingredients that can bring better nutrition to the 800 million undernourished people in the lower-income world.

Sweet or salty? Historically among Eastern European Jews, how they liked their gefilte fish depended on where they lived. This divide created a strictly Jewish geography known as "the gefilte fish line."

The Gefilte Fish Line: A Sweet And Salty History Of Jewish Identity

1:41pm September 26, 2014

by Deena Prichep

Gefilte fish can be a hard sell even in its standard savory form. But some European Jews like it sweet, a preference that, surprisingly, overlaps exactly with a geographic and linguistic divide.

Rosh Hashana's Sacred Bread Offers Meaning In Many Shapes And Sizes

10:36am September 25, 2014

by Deena Prichep

Making challah for the Jewish New Year lets the baker take a moment to reflect on life's blessings. The bread can be shaped into the traditional round, or a lion or bird to echo Bible verses.

A Spicy Take On An Old Standby: This Ketchup's Ripe For Return

8:17pm July 22, 2014

When life gives you tomatoes, make ketchup. With those fruits of the vine in season, All Things Considered reaches into the archives for a tomato ketchup recipe.

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Whipping Up A Second Serving Of Atlantic Beach Pie

7:56pm July 07, 2014

In an encore installment of our Found Recipes series, cookbook writer Katie Workman talks about an amazing citrus and whipped cream pie called "Atlantic Beach Pie."

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