As far as I know, the “LA Hot Sandwich” (pronounced like the letters L-A) was my mom’s own invention, inspired by the lunches she and my dad used to eat at The Dutch Goose in the 197...
2025-09-26 05:28:54 +0000 UTC
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This is a recipe I developed for the New York Times, and you can read it 100% free with these gift links:
This morning, as I was casually flicking through my Instagram feed, I came upon a video so shocking, so vile, so downright wrong, that I had to set my phone down and remind myself that easy, non-co...
2025-09-17 02:19:14 +0000 UTC
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I absolutely love when a simple kitchen hack leads to mind-blowing results, and my new video up on the NYT Cooking channel does exactly that. If you've spent time in Colombia, you've likely tasted ...
2025-09-16 20:31:31 +0000 UTC
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A chop cheese or a Big Mac—those were my late-night staples when I lived in Central Harlem in the mid-2000s. Both hit the spot after a night out, and judging by the lines, I wasn’t the only one...
2025-09-03 22:17:40 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t expect much when the server set down a bowl of spaghetti coated in a creamy, drab-green sauce tangled with dark brown coins of zucchini and wilted basil leaves. But knowing my friend
2025-08-30 00:23:01 +0000 UTC
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I'm not entirely sure why my old chef Ken Oringer put "Mexican Street Corn" on the menu at his Boston area Spanish restaurant To...
2025-08-26 21:52:54 +0000 UTC
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Coleslaw, when it’s done right, is crisp, creamy, and refreshing—the cool, crunchy foil to smoky ribs or a juicy pulled pork sandwich. But you know how this story usually goes: you taste it in ...
2025-08-22 06:14:40 +0000 UTC
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You can find a video walk-through of this recipe as part of my Grilled Skirt Steak with Herb Sauce vid...
2025-08-21 17:45:22 +0000 UTC
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You know that feeling you got the first time you played Street Fighter II at the arcade? When winning meant holding your ground for the next round, and losing meant coughing up another qua...
2025-08-19 09:55:07 +0000 UTC
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Kedai Makan — Kevin Burzell and Alysson Wilson’s Malaysian spot that began as a pop-up in 2013 and evolved into a now-shuttered brick-and-mortar in Capitol Hill — was one of ...
2025-08-13 15:41:56 +0000 UTC
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This is a recipe I developed for the New York Times. You can get the recipe 100% free with this gift link.
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When I wa...
2025-08-06 17:23:04 +0000 UTC
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Every recipe I publish here is personally tested, tasted, and approved.
What I like about this recipe:
Cooking the sausages gently in a pan filled with its toppings ensures that they co...
2025-07-30 19:52:21 +0000 UTC
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Tonight—Friday, July 25th—is the night of Tasting Notes, my live multi-sensory stage show produced in Seattle with the members of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, along with some of Seattle's...
2025-07-25 09:26:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks -
Tasting Notes, my live multi-sensory stage show combining classical chamber music with cooking demonstrations from the world class chefs and top musicians is coming back to Seatt...
2025-07-18 21:20:28 +0000 UTC
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The other day I picked up a few thick-cut pork chops from Beast and Cleaver, my favorite local butcher shop. With such incredibl...
2025-07-09 13:44:32 +0000 UTC
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By J. Kenji López-Alt
Grilling season is here, and whether you're smashing them on a flattop, searing over blazing coals, or carefully tending a gas grill, the fundamentals of great...
2025-07-03 17:06:53 +0000 UTC
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I wrote about this technique for the New York Times a couple summers ago, based on a Whopper...
2025-07-03 07:33:56 +0000 UTC
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I’ll cut to the chase: using scales and grams for baking recipes is more accurate, it’s faster, and it means less cleanup. At home, I use an 11-pound baking scale from OXO that is no longer in...
2025-06-27 17:25:52 +0000 UTC
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A Northern-style cornbread with a crisp crust, a tender crumb, and a nutty hit of brown butter.

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2025-06-25 20:18:09 +0000 UTC
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This is the meal I make when Alicia is hanging upside down on the rope ladder in our tiny play room, Wombat is in the bathroom trying to look at his own butt, and the cats are dissecting another ro...
2025-06-20 15:19:26 +0000 UTC
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Making good dough is easy. Stretching that same dough into a thin pizza skin, topping it with wet ingredients, and launching it into a hot pizza oven is not. Even after stretching and launching tho...
2025-06-13 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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The other day I was cooking a meal for my family in the wok and thought it might be useful for you to see how I cook multiple dishes in a row without compromising their quality. All three of these ...
2025-06-11 17:18:33 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday I put up a post that I claimed was a longer version of the interview with Toshi. I accidenta...
2025-06-10 18:19:07 +0000 UTC
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This is the full version — exclusive for you, my beloved Patreon subscribers — of the abbreviated interview you can find on my 2025-06-08 18:18:23 +0000 UTC
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I had some excellent leftover ground beef from Beast and Cleaver from a video shoot last weekend, so I made myself a burger for ...
2025-06-05 01:01:45 +0000 UTC
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A few months my podcasting partner for The Recipe, Deb Perelman (of 2025-06-03 01:22:44 +0000 UTC
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Ceviche has long since spread from its native Peru ( 2025-05-29 22:57:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! We are going to be dropping 25 more knives available publicly at noon Pacific today. If you missed out on Sunday’s private drop, you get another shot! Given that Sunday sold out in und...
2025-05-28 18:02:53 +0000 UTC
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