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  • 25 of Our Favorite Go-To Summer Recipes
    Summer is cause for many celebrations: School’s out, the weather is fine, and most importantly, the cooking is easy. With all the grilling and outdoor barbecues along with fresh produce like berries, tomatoes, and corn, summer is always a cook...

  • Best Tips and Recipes From the Pros for Grilling Summer Fruits
    On a never-ending quest for new grilling adventures, The Daily Meal’s Cook editors turned their attention to the sweeter side of food and started thinking about grilling fruits for the summer. It’s not an entirely new concept, as we've...

  • Dress Your Burger: Make Your Own Special Sauce
    Let’s take a moment to think about some of our favorite burgers and why we like to eat them. For those of you who are lucky to live on (or travel to) the West Coast, you may say In-N-Out’s beauty is the two thin patties of 100 percent American...

  • 10 of the Messiest Dishes to Make
    We all take chances in life, especially with our cooking. Whether it’s using a sharp blade or handling scorching-hot liquids, sometimes we put ourselves at risk when whipping up a great meal. Click here to see the 10 Messiest Recipes to Make ...

  • The Daily Meal Interviews 'Punky Brewster' Star-Turned-Cookbook Author Soleil Moon Frye
    If you grew up during the '80s then you probably remember Punky Brewster, that loveable sitcom about a young girl growing up with her foster parent. Punky Brewster’s time with us is over, but Soleil Moon Frye, the actress who played the...

  • 15 Cool Ways to Use Greek Yogurt
    Here at The Daily Meal, we’re always looking for new and creative ways to do the obvious. Sometimes that’s a new twist on an old recipe, and other times it’s when we figure out a new use for one of our favorite pieces of equipment. The...

  • 5 Delicious and Healthy Dessert Recipes
    Here are five delicious (and healthy) reasons why you should meet the mother-and-daughter duo behind the blog Mix It Up. The dream child of the daughter in the operation, the blog is meant to share delicious inspiration for healthy desserts through easy-...

  • How to Make the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
    Cookies — people can’t get enough of them and neither can we. Out of all of the cookies there are to enjoy, there’s one classic variety that always takes the number one spot in our hearts. It’s the one that has the mouse asking for...

  • The Gaza Kitchen: A Stronghold Against Despair
    A few years ago, writer and social activist Maggie Schmitt was Googling the Gaza Strip. She wasn’t searching for information on its political tensions with Israel or economic woes, though; she was researching its cuisine. Much to her dismay, she...

  • 10 Easy Summer Chicken Recipes
    One of the best things about summertime is that the weather is fine and we all want to be outside — but that doesn’t mean our cooking has to suffer. While we’re not enthusiastic about standing over a hot pot of stew during the warmer...

  • 100-Calorie Snacks That Aren’t Snack Packs
    One hundred calories. It's just three words, but many of us feel better snacking on something that has that on its nutritional label — it's built-in portion control. That’s why we buy so many boxes of those over-processed, boring snack...

  • 6 Dessert Recipes Made From Shortbread Cookies
    Sometimes all you need is one piece of inspiration to spur several great ideas, especially when it comes to recipe writing. Take our SWAT team for example, where each week The Daily Meal’s editors are asked to develop recipes based on one common...

  • 5 Recipes for 'The Most Exciting 2 Minutes in Sports'
    Even though it is one of the most exciting sports events of the year, the Kentucky Derby sure doesn’t last long. Nicknamed the "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports," the Kentucky Derby has a lot of buildup, with parties, mint juleps, sun...

  • 5-Ingredient Recipes for Cinco de Mayo
    A celebration of Mexican history and heritage, Cinco de Mayo is always, obviously, celebrated on the 5th of May. While some people may know that the 5th of May is the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, a day of Mexico’s unlikely victory over...

  • Get Grilling with The Daily Meal
    Summer’s almost here — let’s fire up the grill. To help you prepare for your summer barbecuing, we’ve excited to share our Grilling and Barbecue Guide so that everything you need to grill is at your fingertips. Whether it’s...

  • 50 Best Burger Recipes
    Summer’s almost here and that means it’s time for some grilling. While there are so many different dishes to cook outdoors, there’s one that wins the popularity contest year after year — yes, we're talking about big, fat, juicy...

  • What Is for Dinner?
    Whether you’re being asked or asking yourself, the question "what is for dinner?" can be more difficult to answer than you think. Between finding time to shop during your busy schedule, cooking to everyone’s tastes, and getting a hot...

  • 3 New Spring Recipes to Get You Through to Summer
    Just because it’s technically spring doesn’t necessarily mean the sun is shining and the weather is warm. Spring can bring all types of weather, from sunny but cold one day to rainy and windy the next, and trying to tolerate the sporadic...

  • The Daily Meal’s Fruit and Vegetable Pageant
    These days, fruits and vegetables are celebrated for so much more than the fact that they’re good for us. While their nutritional values generally remain the same, depending on the time of the year and when they’re in the peak of their season...

  • How to Make Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme at Home
    Nothing sums up the deliciousness of a Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme more concisely than the love letter to it on the daily humor website McSweeney’s. All of the Crunchwrap’s beauty is perfectly summarized in that piece: the convenience of not...

  • How to Make Even Better Guacamole
    Making "the perfect" guacamole is not a novel idea. Heck, we’ve even done it twice before, and have two different interviews with celebrated chefs from New York City hot spots Dos Caminos and Rosa Mexicano about how to make the perfect...

  • How to Make the Perfect Pigs in a Blanket
    We know what you’re thinking. How is it even possible to perfect a pig in a blanket? When you think of the popular mini appetizer, you probably think of it frozen on a sheet pan, ready to be popped in the oven — so what’s there to...

  • 6 Soup Recipes for Your Rainy Spring Days
    Along with warmer weather, fresh flowers, and a bounty of seasonal produce, there’s another thing that we can expect come springtime: rain. As the Earth gears up for summer after a long, cold winter, it’s prone to give its land a shower or two...

  • 3 Great New Recipes for You to Try This Weekend
    The weekend means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some, it’s a time to get out of the house and explore the neighborhood. For others, it’s a chance to get away and escape to some far-off destination for a two-day...

  • Best Cooking Tips and Recipes for the Munchies
    There are times when our food cravings are more intense than usual. Sometimes, thinking about putting food in our mouth is all we can do, and our judgment of taste and quantity is a bit cloudy. It’s the munchies, and when they hit, they hit you hard...

  • Vote for Your Favorite Mini Food to Win an iPad Mini
    We're not quite sure who started making all our favorite foods in miniature form, but it certainly has become much more than just a passing fad. Mini foods are everywhere. Even foods that were already mini versions of something else, such as cupcakes...

  • Key Lessons Learned From Social Media Flop by Epicurious
    If you missed Epicurious’ insensitive tweeting yesterday morning, you’re not going to find it on Twitter, because they’ve deleted the tweets. In what seemed (more on that later) to be an effort to lift Boston’s spirits, the recipe-...

  • New York City Grocer Fairway Goes Public
    What was once as a single fruit stand in the 1930s has now become a publicly traded, 12-store grocery business. One of Manhattan’s prized food retailers, Fairway, announced its IPO this morning and has begun trading above its expected share price at...

  • 7 Miniature Recipes for Your Cupcake Pan
    Think your cupcake pans are just for making cupcakes? Think again. This piece of bakeware doesn’t have to be confined to cupcakes, or even baking for that matter, because there are plenty of tiny treats that you can whip up with the help of its...

  • How to Make the Perfect Eggs Benedict
    Much like so many other iconic dishes with muddled histories, the origins of eggs Benedict are subject to some debate. There are several theories surrounding where, when, how, and — most importantly — by whom the classic dish was created, and...

  • How to Make Your Own Ketchup
    You may be asking yourself, why make your own ketchup? The popular condiment is easily found pretty much anywhere, whether in a grocery store or on a restaurant tabletop, and pretty much all variations of it taste alike, so making your own from scratch at...

  • Get Cooking with Your Kids with the Help of The Daily Meal
    When was the first time you cooked something? If you’re as passionate about cooking as everyone at The Daily Meal, you probably started at a very young age — making gingerbread men with grandma, stirring the spaghetti sauce for mom, or...

  • How to Clean Your Refrigerator
    When you think about it, your refrigerator is one of the hardest-working, most important appliances you have in the kitchen. It runs night and day, nonstop, to protect your precious and perishable foods, and keeps your produce chilled, fresh, and crisp....

  • 7 Recipes (That Aren’t Pie) Using Refrigerated Pie Crust
    While there’s nothing like a delicious home-cooked meal made from scratch, it’s nice to have a helpful hand in the kitchen every now and then. Whether it’s those pre-mixed spice packets that you like to use for your weeknight tacos or a...

  • The $1 Million-Plus Home Kitchen
    Picture a limitless bank account at your disposal, where despite practicality or common sense, you have enough means to purchase anything that your heart desires, and no one is there to stop you or tell you no. Now think about designing your dream kitchen...

  • To Turn or Not to Turn an Artichoke?
    To turn, or not to turn an artichoke… that is often the question — and it was one I frequently found myself asking last week while teaching cooking demos at Robin Leach’s Food University at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The demos...

  • No-Guilt Ice Cream, Cookies, Chips, and More
    Eliminating meat, eggs, and dairy products from your diet is a great start to improving your health. But that doesn’t mean vegetarian and vegan diets are boring, ascetic, or even completely healthy. Click here to see 5 Alternatives to Some of Your...

  • 4 Spring Recipes You Need to Try
    Seasonal produce is a gold mine in the kitchen — helping you make delicious and creative dishes with what’s ripe and fresh. Any cook that takes advantage of a season’s bounty is resourceful and innovative, and thankfully for us, the...

  • 5 Delicious Recipes for Your Leftover Matzoh
    Just because Passover is coming to an end doesn’t mean your (somewhat odd) affinity for matzoh has to. While strongly tied to the Jewish holiday, matzoh can prove to be a delicious addition to your cooking that spans well beyond the seder meal, and...

  • Petition Against Kraft Foods’ Use of Artificial Dyes Gets Personal
    Chicago’s early spring winds weren’t the only brisk chill in the air earlier this morning: Mother and blogger Vani Hari, aka "Food Babe," hand-delivered 270,000 petition signatures to Kraft’s headquarters to ban the use of...

  • Best Songs to Bake To
    Think all you need for your baking project is a stand mixer and your apron? Think again. Just like how baking can be therapeutic, the tunes you work along to can help you reach that zen place in the kitchen. Whether it's getting you in the mood,...

  • How to Make the Perfect Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
    Peanut butter... and jelly. The two condiments are nothing without each other, and for years, they've gone hand in hand wedged between two slices of bread. As National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day is April 2, it’s only fitting to celebrate the...

  • 5 Delicious Baking Recipes
    Calling all sweet tooths: here are five delicious baking recipes from our Culinary Content Network. We already knew that the members of the Culinary Content Network were talented, but sometimes they can really outdo themselves in the baking department....

  • La Boulange Releases Second Cookbook
    What would you get if you took the appeal of a widely available chain and paired it with a unique brand with high-quality products? Well, a good answer to that question would probably be Starbucks, but if you asked someone who lives in the San Francisco...

  • 6 Adorable Baking Recipes for Easter
    Looking to serve more than just jelly beans and chocolate bunnies this Easter? We’ll show you how. Click here to see 6 Adorable Baking Recipes for Easter  From an Easter bunny cake to cupcakes adorned with beautiful spring flowers, these...

  • Studies Reveal Salt Can Be a Killer
    The dangers of salt seem to becoming more and more apparent these days, studies have shown. In addition to reports about the excess amount of salt in toddlers' food recently, a new study has determined that an estimated 2.3 million deaths from heart...

  • Solving the Mystery of Hot Cross Buns with 5 Recipes
    Whether you’re religious or not, you’ve most likely heard of hot cross buns. The small, spiced buns flecked with dried fruits and marked with a cross have been around for centuries, and their origins have strong ties to religious and folk...

  • 6 Reinvented Passover Recipes
    The Jewish holiday of Passover is deeply steeped in tradition. The Passover seder is a celebration of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and their freedom from slavery, and it is composed of specific parts to commemorate an important part of Jewish...

  • José Andrés Fighting to Keep You Safe in the Kitchen
    José Andrés and chefs from around the world met in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this week to raise awareness about harmful and inefficient cooking practices at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves’ Clean Cooking Forum. The...

  • 13 Easy Deviled Egg Recipes to Help You Celebrate Spring
    We’ve mentioned before that all deviled egg recipes are different, and whether it’s your own creation or a family recipe passed down through generations, you’re going to think your version is the best. Even certain chefs in the industry...

  • Everybody Loves Bacon
      The members of our Culinary Content Network are smart people. For one thing, they’re talented. They produce amazing blogs filled with beautiful photos and interesting and engaging content, and they do it often. For another thing, a lot of...

  • Busting the Most Common Kitchen Myths
    Do you do something religiously in the kitchen just because your mother told you to? Salting the pasta water to make it boil faster, storing coffee in the freezer to extend its life span, or searing a steak for juicier meat are all tips we’ve picked...

  • The Stories Behind Portland's Food Revolution
    There’s something going on up in the northwest corner of our country, and it’s going to make you hungry. Starting in 2003, a food revolution began in Portland, Ore., that took the farm-to-table sentiment from a movement to a given, and diners...

  • Best Hangover Recipes
    It’s the morning after a big night — your lips are dry, your head is throbbing and foggy, and your stomach is queasy. As much as it feels like your body is wrongly punishing you for what, as far as you can remember, was only a few drinks, it...

  • How to Make a Better Meatball
    Some things just never get old, especially when it comes to food. Traditional dishes — ones like dips and apple pies — hold a special place in many people’s hearts because of their consistently satisfying flavors and the memories they...

  • 17 Ridiculous Kitchen Gadgets That You Don’t Need
    Let’s face it — the kitchen can be an expensive place. With cookware, knife sets, and everything in between, stocking a kitchen can add up to a lot of money. Because it can be challenging to discern the difference between something you need...

  • How to Make the Perfect Potato Chip
    Is there anything better than a crunchy, salty potato chip? Created in 1853 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., potato chips were originally meant to be a prank in response to a surly customer complaining about his potato fries being "too thick," but...

  • Cheez-Its Soup to Nuts with 6 Easy Recipes
    One of the best things about cooking is how it can surprise you. Combining sweet with savory flavors, adding a smooth texture to a crunchy one, or using a piece of equipment for something it wasn’t designed for can yield results that will excite...

  • Baking in Memory of a Loved One
    When Matt Fisher decided to do something in memory of his sister, who passed away in a car accident in 2010, he thought of cookies. Every year that Fisher was away at college, his little sister would send him a fresh batch of cookies to say I love you,...

  • 6 New Ways to Think About Egg Salad
    Egg salad is a hot or cold thing for people. There are the people who love egg salad, and then there are the people who don’t. Some people can’t stand eggs; some people can’t stand them hard-boiled, and there are some who absolutely...

  • Celebrities Encourage Kids to Eat Junk Food
    A new study conducted by the University of Liverpool revealed that celebrity endorsements of snack foods encourage children to eat more of that food. Observing 181 children between the ages of 8 and 11, the study placed two bowls of Walkers potato chips,...

  • Science Says PMS Solved With Steak
    Earlier this week, a study published by The American Journal of Epidemiology revealed that women with higher levels of iron were less likely to suffer from premenstrual symptoms – a shocking and new revelation for women everywhere. Or is it? The...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinner: Kale
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • 8 Foods That Are Worth Buying Frozen
    Let’s face it, we as human beings are pretty much always looking for an easy way out, especially when it comes to cooking, and buying frozen foods is one route we often take. Click here to see 8 Frozen Foods That Are Worth Buying Frozen  There...

  • How to Bake for St. Patrick’s Day with 5 Easy Recipes
    Your beer isn’t the only thing that should be tinted green this St. Patrick’s Day. To add some spirit to baking, McCormick is bringing a little green color — and flavor — to some of our favorite recipes, making the baked goods...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinner: Roasted Chicken
      Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinner: Roasted Chicken
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • 35 Years of Food & Wine Magazine
    In the dawn of digital publishing, few print publications still catch one's eye, but Food & Wine magazine is one of those publications. Founded in 1978 by Michael and Ariane Batterberry (who later went on to co-found Food Arts) as The...

  • 15 Best Cooking Apps for Your Smartphone
    Cooking has evolved from a necessary skill we learned in order to feed ourselves into a hobby, a competition, and a talent that is well respected throughout the country. No more is cooking limited to restaurants or family dinners; now, it’s become...

  • Love Your Heart with 5 New Almond Recipes
    We’re always looking for new ways to eat healthy, whether it’s eating low-sodium foods or trying a new diet trend, and as February is American Heart Month, we’ve heard a lot about how you can eat for your heart the past few weeks. To end...

  • 15 Best Kitchen Infomercial Products
    There are some people out there that just can’t resist an infomercial. Whether they’re night owls, TV junkies, or just seeking more convenience in their life, they’re the ones that will never give up on those late-night airings and two-...

  • 5 Sauces That Will Spruce Up Your Cooking
    There’s something missing in your cooking, and if we were to take a wild guess, we’d say it was sauces. For those of you who have dreamt of going to culinary school but just never took the plunge, here’s something you would’ve...

  • 5 Recipes From the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival
    Some of us are lucky enough to head down to the 12th annual Food Network Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine down in South Beach this coming weekend, and some of us are not. If you’re part of the latter group, all hope is not lost...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinners with Plated.com
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • 5 Cookie Recipes for Grown-Ups
    It’s time for grown-ups to have their day… with cookies, that is. The baked treat has always been associated as a child’s pot of gold; a reward after completing homework or a sweet respite during an after-school activity, but now it...

  • How to Make Your Own Sprinkles at Home
    Your cake is in the oven and the buttercream frosting is chilling in the fridge. Now, all of you have to worry about is finding those bottles of sprinkles you bought ages ago… or do you? See How to Make Your Own Sprinkles at Home Baking is a...

  • 11 Common Mistakes You May Be Making in the Kitchen
    You forgot you left the heat on high, and you walked away from the stove for a minute only to return to find a scorched and blackened piece of chicken. It happens — some of the best and most accomplished chefs can get distracted and slip up, but...

  • The Daily Meal’s Guide to Baking
    Fresh buns baking in the oven, the smell of melted butter, velvety chocolate hitting your lips — what’s not to love about baking? We couldn’t think of anything either, which is why we’ve created a guide dedicated entirely to the...

  • Your Anxiety May Be Affecting Our Ecosystem
    Social interactions aren’t the only thing your anxiety is affecting. A recent study in Sweden found that a pharmaceutical drug used to treat anxiety in humans could be affecting our ecosystems. Scientists found that fish that carried traces of the...

  • Vegetarianism: An Argument for the Environment
    Are you one of those people who grimace when someone tells you they’re a vegetarian because of a cute, innocent baby lamb’s face? So am I, because no matter how many lamb chop dishes I skip out on, I’m pretty sure that baby lamb is still...

  • 6 Recipes That Go Together for Valentine’s Day
    If you’re anything like us, then you’re probably planning on tying on an apron this Valentine’s Day and slaving over the stove for the one you love (even if that one is just yourself). Click here to see 6 Recipes That Go Together for...

  • 6 Pancake Recipes to Help You Shrive Your Shrove Tuesday
    Along with Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras is also referred to as Shrove Tuesday. Just like the other titles for the day, Shrove Tuesday is a reference to preparing for Lent, with shrove the past tense of the word shrive, which means to confess...

  • What Beyoncé Would Have in Her Kitchen If She Could Cook
    There’s been a lot of chatter about Beyoncé and her cooking over the past few years. A few years ago, there was talk that she would be releasing a cookbook featuring her mother’s delicious soul cooking, but it was quickly debunked with...

  • How to Make Your Own Thin Mints at Home
    That Girl Scout knocking on your door represents much more than a box of cookies; the sale of Girl Scout cookies represents the world’s largest girl-led business, and Girl Scouts are profiting from it in more ways than just raising money.   See...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinner: Mardi Gras Style
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • 8 New Ways to Coat Your Cutlet
    It’s time to step out of your comfort zone when it comes to breading, and we’re not talking about the whole cat breading craze. To stray away from the familiar, we’re introducing some new ways to bread your food that go far beyond the...

  • 8 New Nutella Recipes
    World War II changed the food world far beyond introducing victory gardens, because without it, we wouldn’t have Nutella. With the war came a shortage of cocoa in the 1940s, and bakers and pastry chefs like Italian Pietro Ferrero were forced to look...

  • Cooking with Vegetables of Every Color
    There’s cooking with vegetables, and then there’s world-renowned chef Alain Passard’s way of cooking with vegetables. In 2001, Passard made a bold move at his three-Michelin-star restaurant in Paris that inspired chefs around the world:...

  • A Super Bowl Burger for a Ravens Fan
    What’s better than being fully suited up in your Ravens gear this coming Sunday for Super Bowl XLVII? Enjoying a classic Ravens burger, and chef Emilie Bousquet Walsh agrees, so much so that she designed this Ravens "burger" as a tribute...

  • A Super Bowl Burger for a 49ers Fan
    What’s better than being fully suited up in your 49ers gear this coming Sunday for Super Bowl XLVII? Enjoying a classic 49ers burger, and chef Emilie Bousquet Walsh agrees, so much so that she designed this burger in a tribute to the San Francisco...

  • How to Make Auntie Anne’s Pretzels at Home
    What’s your favorite thing about going to the mall? If you’re like the Cook editors at The Daily Meal, it’s probably not the stores or the sightings of Santa around Christmastime, but that sweet, baked, buttery aroma wafting through the...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinners: Red Wine Roasted Turkey Legs
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • 5 Last-Minute Dishes to Serve for the Super Bowl
    Wings? Check. Chili? Check. Stuffed mac and cheese nacho dumplings? We didn’t think so. You may have your Super Bowl menu planned out for this Sunday, but we’re here to throw a couple of curveballs at you. To give you some ideas for last-...

  • Eat the Flu Away with These Immune-Boosting Foods
    "Achoo!" As soon as we hear it, the panic sets in. It’s wintertime, the flu virus is running rampant, and a few sniffles and sneezes are enough to make us all run for the hills. We’re not overreacting, either, seeing as we’re...

  • 8 Surprising Ways to Use Chocolate
    Chocolate sauce, chocolate cookies, chocolate ice cream — we all have our favorite ways to enjoy the delicious ingredient. For many of us, though, the word chocolate immediately conjures up thoughts of a dessert menu, a box of chocolates, or an ice...

  • 10 Ways to Cook the Perfect Egg
    Many mornings are met with an egg; sometimes afternoons and evenings are, too. An egg is a "power-packed capsule of great nutrition," says Jim Chakeres, vice president of the Ohio Poultry Association, and just one egg gives you a large dose of...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinners: Kale Mac and Cheese
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • How to Make the Perfect Mac and Cheese
    There’s something about mac and cheese that makes it hard not to love. For one, it’s comforting, a quality most Americans love in their meals. A mac and cheese’s velvety, smooth sauce always has the ability to soothe anyone’s soul...

  • What a 49ers Fan Should Make for the Super Bowl
    This year, without having to worry about the New York Giants getting in their way, the 49ers have become the NFC champions. On Feb. 4 they’ll face off against the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans, and if you’re not lucky to be at the game...

  • What a Ravens Fan Should Make for the Super Bowl
    The Ravens did it; defeated quarterback Tom Brady and his teammates and are the AFC champions in the NFL. On Feb. 4 they’ll match up against the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans, Louisiana, and if you’re not lucky enough to be at the game,...

  • How Many Breasts Does a Chicken Have?
    When you read a recipe that calls for four chicken breasts, how many do you go out and buy? It may come as a surprise, but this is a frequent argument among culinary social circles — a lot of people would go out and buy eight chicken breasts, while...

  • Too Good to Be True Diet Trends and What You Should Try Instead
    “I’m on a diet;” common words heard spoken from another’s mouth, especially at the start of a new year. While dieting to lose weight will never fade, diet trends come and go.  These days, between Atkins, Jenny, and the Cave...

  • America’s 25 Favorite Home-Cooked Dishes
    What meals are Americans cooking these days? There are a number of ways to answer that question, from finding out what the most searched recipes are to determining the popular food trends of the year. But while we could turn to search engines for help and...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinners: Fillet of Beef
    Breaking bread is a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is enjoyed. Everyone at The Daily Meal can speak to this, which is why we’ve started our Family Dinners. Every week, we’re creating a way for all of us — from our...

  • New Cooking Group Explores the Facets of Middle Eastern Cuisine Through a Cookbook
    Beth Lee and Sarene Wallace are lifelong friends who love to cook. They live a few hours apart in California, and both of them express their culinary creativity through different outlets; Lee writes the blog OMG! Yummy and Wallace is a freelance food...

  • Beer, It’s Not Just for Drinking: 4 Beer-Infused Recipes
    Every beer lover can agree that there’s nothing better than cracking open an ice-cold beer and sitting back to relax. Founder and head brew master of Blue Moon Brewing Company Keith Villa couldn't agree more, because when he’s not standing...

  • 20 Tips for How to Be a Better Home Cook
    Do you think Julia Child scoffed at the sound of someone giving her a cooking tip while she worked in her kitchen? Would José Andrés fire his chef de cuisine on the spot for suggesting something new on the menu? Do you think James Beard...

  • Cook Like an NFL Player and Help Fight Hunger, Too
    Americans fight hunger each and every day through a number of different means, and NFL players are no exception. Not only are they whizzes with a football, but professionals of the NFL have been helping fight hunger for the past 22 years through their...

  • Your Grandmother’s Dips Reinvented
    Is there anything better than a good old-fashioned dip? Creamy, versatile, and comforting, dips are a surefire crowd-pleaser for any occasion, and we’re not calling them old-fashioned for nothing — but we’ll get to that in a minute. See...

  • The Daily Meal’s Family Dinners
    Sunday supper, family meals, dinner — these are all ways we choose to describe breaking bread. Whether sitting down with family, friends, or new acquaintances, sharing a meal with others is always a fulfilling experience well beyond the food that is...

  • 9 Playoff-Worthy Recipes
    It’s that time of year the again: the NFL playoffs. It's go time in the world of professional football, the moment in the season when the weak are separated from the strong so that only the most talented teams meet in New Orleans. With wildcard...

  • 7 Reasons Why You Should Eat More Fish
    New year, new you, and for many people, that means eating healthier. It’s not rocket science, and yet so many people struggle with finding a way to eat better. To help you improve your diet this year, we’re giving you a few reasons that’...

  • What the Lords and Ladies of Downton Abbey Are Eating
    Disputes, money, love; it’s all happening on Downton Abbey. Whether you’re shocked by Lady Edith and her farm boy or still devastated by Lord Robert’s unthinkable affair with a war widow, there’s lots to talk about surrounding the...

  • Healthy Winter Dinner Ideas
    Sure, the tree has been taken down and the menorah put away, but that doesn’t mean that all of those hearty and filling foods that you enjoyed during the holidays are gone for good. Winter — especially for those in colder regions — is a...

  • How to Easily (and Safely) Flambé
    Flambéing: it’s not just for show. While cooking with chef Didier Montarou of the InterContinental Hotel Boston recently, I learned that the dramatic act of igniting flames in a pan is not just to show off while cooking, which so many people...

  • How to Make Some of the Best NFL Food at Home
    Week 17 of the NFL season is officially over, and as many of us bid farewell to our favorite teams, let’s take a step back and reflect on all that the 2012 season has brought us — in matters of food, that is. As you may recall, The Daily Meal...

  • The Daily Meal Editors' New Year's Resolutions
    A new diet, working out, less booze — these are all common resolutions that people aim to stick to when starting a new year. No matter what the theme, whenever that clock strikes midnight on the first of January, everyone (well, mostly everyone)...

  • 4 Brunch Recipes That Will Help You Kick Off the New Year Right
    It’s New Year’s Day. The party’s over, the hangover’s setting in, and it’s the start of a new year, which can only mean one thing: it’s time for brunch. For so many who ring in the new year, New Year’s Day brunch...

  • A Taste of Both the New and the Old New England
    You may recall exactly a year ago from now when Dana Cowin, editor-in-chief of Food & Wine Magazine, included the Foie-Gras Banana Bread Terrine from Seasons at the Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island on her list of Best Dishes of 2011. While...

  • What You Shouldn’t Have Missed from Cook in 2012
    A lot happened in 2012, and as it is so often the case when we approach a new year, we'd like to take some time to reflect on the most memorable events that took place in the past year — on the Cook channel, that is. Sure, the Queen of England...

  • The Daily Cookie Cookbook: Almond Ginger Toasts
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re new cookie...

  • The Daily Cookie Cookbook: Eggnog Sandwiches
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re new cookie...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Pfeffernüsse
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • The Daily Meal’s Ultimate Guide to Cookies
    What’s not to love about cookies? Round, square, long, or short; cookies come any way you like them — covered in creamy chocolate chips, loaded with crunchy nuts, or even sprinkled in festive spices. The editors of The Daily Meal...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Lemon Bars
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas… with Bacon
    What do you do with a whole lot of bacon a few days before Christmas? Make Christmas decorations with it, of course. Or at least that’s what we did. We're extremely excited about the holidays, so we took our festive spirit into the kitchen and...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Colonial Rock Cookies
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • The New Holiday Cookies From Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith
    This year, we want more than just the traditional holiday cookies. Sure, we can’t get enough of gingerbread men with their cute little outfits and thumbprint cookies filled with jam, but we want to mix things up this Christmas season, and we hope...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Bachelor’s Buttons
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • How to Cook Like Anne Hathaway
    Anne Hathaway is full of surprises. Not only did the beautiful actress surprise us when we heard that she sang her all her own songs — live, might we add — in the upcoming Les Miserables, but apparently she likes to cook. Not only does she...

  • How to Cook Like Anne Hathaway
    Anne Hathaway is full of surprises. Not only did the beautiful actress surprise us when we heard that she sang her all her own songs — live, might we add — in the upcoming Les Miserables, but apparently she likes to cook. Not only does she...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Cranberry Streusel Bars
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • 9 Things You Should Roast This Christmas
    Why serve roasts on Christmas? Is it because they’re elegant, or because they feed large crowds? Or perhaps it’s because they’re a dish that is prepared so fittingly with the time of year — they're easy, comforting, and require...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Wine Cookies
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • Pimp My McRib
    Dec. 17 marked the return of the McRib to McDonald’s menus, and the Cook editors at The Daily Meal have a few bones to pick (literally) about this raved-about sandwich. While we’ve always been annoyed with the disappearing act (the sandwich is...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Maple Oat Bars
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Chai-Chocolate Banana Tea Bars
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Mandel Bread
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • The 12 Dishes of Christmas
    Although everyone loves a traditional Christmas meal, let’s face it: there are some of us out there looking to create something bigger and better than the typical Christmas dinner this year. Even those who won’t turn their back on their...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: 10-at-a-Time Cookies
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • How to Make the Perfect Latke
    OK, I’ll admit it, I’m a Catholic school girl, born and raised. Yes, I wore a uniform for most of my educational career, and yes, I took theology classes in college. Because of my religiously dominated upbringing, you’re probably not...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Chocolate Rum Crinkle Cookies
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • 12 Days of Cookies: Ambrosia Cookies
    It’s cookie season and people all around the world are baking, cutting, sprinkling, wrapping, and giving out all kinds of different cookies. To celebrate this festive time of the year and to bring you some new inspiration, we’re sharing 12...

  • The Foundations of Provençal Cuisine
    While working with chef Didier Montarou at the InterContinental Hotel Boston, I learned more than just how to perfectly cook a scallop. Because his flagship restaurant at the hotel, Miel, serves Provençal brasserie-inspired cuisine, he had a lot to...

  • 1 Ingredient, 3 Ways
      Last week’s Four Seasons event in New York City featured delicious cocktails, a chance to mingle with some of the city’s most respected food figures, and iPads for guests to play around with their new culinary-focused website, TASTE...

  • Eat Healthy by Adding a Daily Dose of Color to Your Diet
      Sometimes things are easier to understand when they’re color-coded. Despite the vast amount of nutritional information at our fingertips, it’s easy to get confused by all of beto-and phyto-terms being thrown around. Even after a long,...

  • 7 Secrets to Making Holiday Meals Healthy
    Love your family recipes over the holiday but can’t stand the heartburn? Our bodies take the hardest hit from all the holiday feasting, whether it’s from the butter-braised turkey you just finished enjoying over Thanksgiving or the cookies...

  • 12 Healthy Holiday Appetizers
    "Oh, why not, it’s the holidays after all." That’s the excuse running through everyone’s head as they reach for that extra pig-in-a-blanket at their holiday parties. Because of all of the cooking, serving, and, most importantly...

  • How to Make the Perfect Holiday Ham
    Miss Piggy, cover your ears, because we can’t get enough of holiday hams. While our friends from the The Muppet Christmas Carol go on and on about that goose getting fat in one of their most popular Christmas songs, the Cook editors at The Daily...

  • Have You Signed Up for the Recipe of the Day Newsletter?
    One of the biggest roadblocks for cooks, even the professional ones, is figuring out what to make for dinner. Whether it’s too few or too many ideas, sometimes it’s hard to make a firm decision on what you want to cook that evening.  The...

  • How to Cook Scallops to Perfection
    Scallops are a tricky thing to master. They’re incredibly delicate, so the amount of heat used is important and the timing is absolutely key, and they’re shellfish, so they have elements from the sea that play into the chemistry of their...

  • 24 Cookbook Gifts for the 12 Kinds of Cooks in Your Life
    Last month, we gave you our picks for the 25 best cookbooks of the year. We didn’t just sift through a list of books and pick the prettiest names, though — we carefully developed a grading rubric that helped us determine the cookbook’s...

  • How to Dress Up Your Holiday Gingerbread Man
    The gingerbread man has long been a staple of holiday baking traditions. In 1875, the sugary figurine was first introduced to holiday traditions through a fairytale published in St. Nicholas magazine, where he was depicted as a sought-after treat that...

  • Building Confidence in the Kitchen with America's Best Chefs
    Picture this: You’re standing in your kitchen and the medium onion you bought only yielded a cup of chopped yellow onion, not a cup and a half like the recipe you're making calls for. You’re doomed — or so writer Adam Roberts would...

  • How to Cook Like Bradley Cooper
    People Magazine’s 2011 Sexiest Man Alive has a lot more to him than his gorgeous looks and his acting skills — he can cook, too. When he’s not on-screen making us laugh in comedies like The Hangover and Wedding Crashers, Cooper likes to...

  • Best Tips for Holiday Bread-Making
    Rise to the occasion this holiday, or rather, let your bread rise. Baking is one of the most therapeutic and rewarding acts you can perform in the kitchen, and there’s no better time than the holidays to enjoy freshly baked bread. Click here to see...

  • The Daily Meal’s 2012 Gift Guide for the Home Cook
    The holidays are here, and as soon as the turkey carvers were stowed away after Thanksgiving everyone hit the streets to start their holiday shopping. An iPod for your niece, a sweater for mom — everyone has a gift idea in mind for that particular...

  • Get Inspired and Sign Up for the Recipe of the Day Newsletter
    One of the biggest roadblocks for cooks, even the professional ones, is figuring out what to make for dinner. Whether it’s too little or too many ideas, sometimes it’s hard to narrow down your choices and make a firm decision on what you want...

  • Baseball Legend Nolan Ryan to Release New Cookbook
    A Major League baseball team isn’t the only thing the famed team owner and former pitcher Nolan Ryan can offer from Texas: The principal owner and CEO of the Texas Rangers, Nolan Ryan is now releasing a cookbook inspired by his days spent living on...

  • Chef David Burke’s Weekly Column for The Daily Meal
    This past summer we announced that chef David Burke would be writing a weekly column for The Daily Meal’s Cook channel. Along with his seven award-winning restaurants, the New York City chef is known for his entrepreneurial ambitions and...

  • Illustrated Recipes for Kids
    Are you trying to replace the remote control with something more productive in your household? Sometimes all we want is to move our kids off the couch and get them involved with something besides TV and video games. If you’re in need of a...

  • How to Make Your Own Cranberry Wine
    Looking for something festive to do over the holiday weekend that involves the whole family? For those of you who enjoy your vino, making wine is a fun project to do with your family over the holidays, and the best part is that your wine will be ready for...

  • What to Do with Leftover Cranberry Sauce
    Most people can agree that there’s nothing wrong with having Thanksgiving leftovers. Days after the big holiday, the extra stuffing and mashed potatoes you have in the fridge will still taste just as delicious after a quick zap in the microwave. The...

  • Creating New England Dishes Infused with French and Japanese Flair
    Early last month, I joined InterContinental Hotels’ Kitchen Passport Program at their Buckhead location to create three all-new, seasonally inspired recipes with Chef Art Smith of their flagship restaurant Southern Art. This month, I’ll be...

  • Why You Should Sign Up For the Recipe of the Day Newsletter
    One of the biggest roadblocks for cooks, even the professional ones, is figuring out what to make for dinner. Whether it’s too little or too many ideas, sometimes it’s hard to narrow down your choices and make a firm decision on what you want...

  • The 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year
    Where would we be as cooks without cookbooks? Dating back as far as the fifth century, cookbooks have served as a collection of instructions for creating edible and, in most cases, delicious foods. Without cookbooks, or the passing along of recipes, we...

  • Twinkie Lovers Don't Fret: Here’s How to Make Your Own Twinkies at Home
    Only a few short hours after Hostess announced its closing, the panic began to set in. With one of the nation’s largest providers of freshly baked breads and sweet treats shutting its doors for good, people began to wonder: what will happen to our...

  • 5 Things I Learned From Bobby Flay
    Last night at FAGE’s Plain Kitchen event, Bobby Flay stood in front of a crowd of about 20 people, myself included, and taught us how to make a delicious hummus and a lamb salad using FAGE’s fat-free plain Greek yogurt. The class attendees...

  • Food Network’s Thanksgiving Recipe Search Trends
    How do you start planning your Thanksgiving menu? Although the general theme of the meal has been consistent over the years, people are always looking for new ways to serve the classics — a twist on standard mashed potatoes, a deep-fried turkey...

  • 6 Roasting Pans We’ll Be Using This Thanksgiving
    It’s a widely known fact that most Americans spend the majority of their fall planning for Thanksgiving — inviting their families, planning their tablescapes, and last but not least, finalizing their menu. While guests, décor, and the...

  • A Virtual Thanksgiving
    This past fall we joined Food Network's back-to-school virtual potluck event, and now The Daily Meal has been invited to #pullupachair to the table again for Thanksgiving. There’s nothing better than a potluck, where each person invited brings a...

  • What Robert Pattinson Would Make If He Could Cook
    OK, so we’ve heard that Robert Pattinson can’t cook. But that doesn’t mean the Cook editors can’t fantasize about — among other things —what he would make if he could. The charming and brooding star may be too busy...

  • Every Stuffing Recipe You’ll Ever Need
    A Thanksgiving plate is a work of art — a canvas carefully constructed so that each dish is paired perfectly with one another. Mashed potatoes wouldn’t be the same without gravy, and the turkey always gets a special boost from the cranberry...

  • 10 Perfect Turkeys 10 Different Ways
    Turkey will always be the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving meal. While there have been variations on the menu from time to time, whether to switch things up or because of a family's heritage, turkey remains the exemplary symbol of the holiday and...

  • The Secret to Browning Meat
    I’ve never been very good at browning meats, and I blame it on one of my few cooking vices, which is that I love to touch. Whether it’s grilling, sautéing, or stirring, I constantly have my cooking utensil in hand and am touching the...

  • What Is… a Pressure Cooker?
    You’ve probably heard people talking about a pressure cooker, whether it’s your friend who is always on the forefront of new culinary trends, a hip new chef experimenting in molecular gastronomy, or someone at your most recent dinner party...

  • The Apex of Culinary Skills: The Salt Lick Barbecue
    You may have heard the saying that the road to great barbecue is a journey, and this has never been more true than with The Salt Lick. Located in Driftwood, Texas, the restaurant serves more than 600,000 people a year its award-winning barbecue and as you...

  • The Daily Meal’s Guide to Thanksgiving
    It’s that time of the year again — the leaves have turned, the clocks have moved back an hour, and everyone’s Halloween costumes have been stowed away until next year’s festivities. It’s Thanksgiving season and planning is...

  • The Daily Meal’s Guide to Thanksgiving
    It’s that time of the year again — the leaves have turned, the clocks have moved back an hour, and everyone’s Halloween costumes have been stowed away until next year’s festivities. It’s Thanksgiving season and planning is...

  • The Daily Meal’s Fast-Food Thanksgiving
    We’ve all been there: driving down the highway late at night with an empty stomach or racing to a meeting with little time for lunch and popping into the nearest fast-food spot for a quick bite. But while we enjoy fast food for its convenience, we...

  • Fighting Hunger One Refrigerator at a Time with Sandra Lee
    With the holidays quickly approaching, entertaining is on a lot of people’s minds as they get ready to welcome their families into their homes and feed them a feast unlike any other. Along with entertaining, another theme that we see quite often...

  • The Ultimate Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich
    Once the plates have been cleared, the candles blown out, and the dishwasher loaded, there’s nothing left of Thanksgiving except for the leftovers. For many, reheating a plate full of mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, and gravy is a good enough way...

  • Hurricane Sandy’s Effects on Our Crops
    As the United States picks up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy’s wrath today, there’s a growing concern about the long-term effects on some of the nation’s largest food crops. While preparations for the storm were just getting underway...

  • The Daily Meal’s Guide to Cooking Through a Natural Disaster
    With Hurricane Sandy quickly approaching, many of us living in the coastal towns of the Eastern Seaboard are preparing for the arrival of strong gusts of wind, heavy rainfall, and potential flooding. Staying safe is on the top of the East Coast’s...

  • The Ultimate Guide to Making Candy Apples at Home
    Candy apples are hard to resist — when you see one, you just have to have one. That’s because the hand-held dessert really only comes around once a year, and is considered such a delicacy because of its alluring qualities one could not imagine...

  • 6 New Ways to Dress Up the Perfect Butternut Squash Soup
    Imagine this: the leaves outside are vibrant hues of red, orange, and yellow, a roaring fire is blazing in your living room, and your favorite NFL team just scored a winning touchdown with 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter. It's the perfect fall...

  • Reinventing the Casserole with the Casserole Queens
    What do you think of when you think of casseroles? While many of us may flash back to a 1950s housewife pulling a steaming dish out of the oven, the history of the casserole dates back to earlier times. Click here to see the Reinventing the Casserole with...

  • Your Multivitamin Diet: 15 Foods That Will Help You Increase Your Vitamin Intake
    "Do you take a multivitamin?" It’s a common question these days, asked everywhere from doctor’s offices to cocktail parties, as more and more people in our society are increasingly concerned with staying healthy and fit. According to...

  • Southern Art: Atlanta
    I’ve never been much of a fan of hotel food. Whether in town for business or pleasure, I usually think of room service or the lobby restaurant as a backup plan — for when a reservation at the city’s hottest restaurant falls through or...

  • 10 Easy Recipes for America’s Favorite Cookies
    Cookies — some are round, some are square, some are chewy, and some are crunchy, but no matter what they look like, cookies consistently top the list of America’s favorite baked goods. For many of us, cookies are the very first thing that we...

  • Wrapping Up National Hispanic Heritage Month with Cuban Food
    As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, we spoke with chef Stanley Licairac of New York City’s Havana Central about what the month of festivities means to him. For Licairac, the four weeks of remembrances are important because "it...

  • A Taste of the South with the InterContinental Hotel Kitchen Passport Program
    Consider fine dining at a luxury hotel, and then imagine if you could recreate that type of meal in your own home. This is all possible with InterContinental Hotel’s kitchen cookbook iPad app, which shares recipes created by their state-of-the-art...

  • What Do You Eat When No One Is Looking?
    It’s 3 a.m. and everyone’s asleep, but you're up rummaging around the kitchen — what are you making? Everyone has a guilty pleasure or two when it comes to food, and whether or not we’d like to admit it, there are certain...

  • What Are…Persimmons?
    When chef Art Smith and I sat down to develop our final dish for the InterContinental Hotels Kitchen Passport Program, the continued to focus on the same two themes that guided us through developing our other recipes: seasonality and the South. During our...

  • Cooking Channel’s Uncorked at the New York City Wine & Food Festival
    Ever imagine attending a cocktail party with some of your favorite food personalities? This past Friday night, at the New York City Wine & Food Festival, attendees of Cooking Channel’s Uncorked event in the Meatpacking District did just that,...

  • How to Make Your Favorite Halloween Candy at Home
    What are your favorite Halloween candies? With the celebrated candy-filled holiday just around the corner, the editors at The Daily Meal mused on what sugary classics our Halloweens wouldn’t be complete without. While many were oohed and aahed over...

  • 8 Foods That Will Help You Fight Breast Cancer
    When people are diagnosed with breast cancer they can feel as if they’ve lost all control — of their life, their health, and their happiness. As the diagnosis sets in and treatments begin, patients devote themselves to cancer-healing regimens...

  • Making Southern Food Healthy with Chef Art Smith
    Cheesy grits, crunchy fried chicken, and creamy pimento cheese: the hallmark dishes of the South, at least in my New York state of mind. Not only are these classic staples from the South, but they’re also high in calories and fat, and upon telling...

  • How to Have a Healthy Halloween with Homemade Treats
    Halloween is right around the corner, which means it’s time to start stocking up on sweets to pass out to all the trick-or-treaters. Many will probably go out and buy a variety of favorites such as Snicker’s, Reese's Pieces, and Smarties...

  • A Southern Spin on a Classic Favorite with Chef Art Smith
    What do you get when you pair a Cook editor from New York with a renowned Southern chef and ask them to develop an appetizer recipe? Southern oysters Rockefeller. When chef Art Smith and I began brainstorming appetizer ideas for InterContinental Hotel...

  • 5 Alternative Asian Ingredients to Work With
    Although the quest to explore Asian cooking can begin with buying a few essential pantry ingredients, you may be hard-pressed to complete an authentic meal with just the purchase of sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. While ingredients such as these are...

  • Recipes That Will Heal
    We’ve all hailed food as our savior from time to time, as it can provide a comforting warmth that we embrace in good times and in bad. Whether it is breaking bread with family during the holidays or treating ourselves to something indulgent when we...

  • America’s Most Popular Recipes of 2012
    People want to know what everyone else in the country is up to these days. It’s why we watch the news, set up Google Alerts, and follow social media outlets such as Twitter and Pinterest with vigor. By learning what others around them are interested...

  • Cooking With InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
    InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is stretching its legs and expanding its culinary expertise with a new Kitchen Passport Program. The program, which will play a role in developing new content for InterContinental's cookbook iPad app, will bring...

  • Intimate Meals at the World’s Best Restaurants
    Have you heard of a staff meal? If you’ve ever worked in the restaurant industry, you probably have, but many people may not be familiar with the term. A staff meal is a meal that is prepared for the staff of a restaurant in between service hours....

  • How to Make the Ultimate Buffalo Wing
    These days, you can get any kind of chicken wing your heart desires. Whether you’re craving honey-glazed barbecue, teriyaki sesame, or Jamaican jerk, there’s probably a wing recipe for that, and it’s most likely being served at your...

  • Wingfest: Who Makes New York City's Best Chicken Wings?
    Where do you find the best wings in New York City? In such a vast culinary landscape as the Big Apple, finding the perfect wing is not a simple task. And who declares a wing to be the best in town, anyway? While some spots earn their best-wings badges...

  • How to Handle Your Cookware Like a Pro
    As cooking tools become more advanced and more options are made available to consumers, more decisions need to be made when it comes to buying cookware. With so many selections to choose from, completing your cookware set can become quite a headache if...

  • Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Aarón Sanchez
    National Hispanic Heritage Month has officially commenced. As Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of independence for several Latin American countries, the United States begins a monthlong celebration of Hispanic cultures and histories on this date. These...

  • 10 Healthy and Delicious Snacks for After-School Sports
    It’s halftime and the home team is down by two. What’s going to get the players recharged and ready to take the lead in the second half? Click here to see the 10 Healthy and Delicious Snacks for After-School Sports Slideshow This school year,...

  • 7 Easy Recipes to Help You Go Vegan
    While the choice to follow a vegan diet is becoming more and more popular these days, forgoing meat, fish, and dairy is no small task. Whether for dietary or ethical reasons, many are choosing to commit to a plant-based diet that abstains from animal...

  • Would You Pass a Health Inspection?
    The health departments in some cities around the country, including New York City, award letter grades to restaurants — A, B, C, and so on — based on how safe their food handling practices are. But virtually every municipality (or county)...

  • How to Make Your Own White Castle Slider at Home
    "Crave on!" exclaimed vice president of White Castle Jamie Richardson as he signed off on an email exchange. We bet you know what craving he’s talking about. It’s that mouthwatering thought of something small, something tender, and...

  • Bitayavon and Joy of Kosher Merge for a Bigger and Better Kosher
    Want to know what happens when two become one? No, this is not The Daily Meal’s Spice Girls rendition; this is about two critically acclaimed publications joining forces to become a new and distinctive magazine. Oh, and, they just so happen to be...

  • Updating Your Kids’ Brown-Bag Lunch with Chef Recipes
    It’s Monday morning, and as the kids are getting ready for school, you’re wondering what to pack inside their brown-bag lunch. We’ve all had that problem, where lack of inspiration and healthy options leave us scrambling to put something...

  • How to Make Perfect Guacamole
    With National Guacamole Day on Sept. 16 quickly approaching, now is a better time than ever to get your guacamole-making skills in check. Who better to turn to than chef Joe Quintana from New York City’s Rosa Mexicano restaurant, who is widely known...

  • How to Choose an Avocado
    Avocados can be scary things for a lot of people, mostly because many aren’t sure what which ones to buy and take home. Here are three helpful tips to help you choose an avocado.   Type. There are generally three basic types of avocados...

  • Your Farmers Market Checklist
    While we’re starting to bid the summer farewell, that doesn’t necessarily mean we have to say goodbye to our local farmers markets. Fall is one of the best seasons to be visiting the farmer stand and buying fresh and organic produce, so that...

  • The Difference Between Canned and Fresh Tomatoes
    Sometimes a tomato sauce recipe will call for fresh tomatoes, sometimes it will call for canned, and sometimes it will call for both. So you’ll probably find yourself asking, what’s the difference, anyways? While it’s probably no...

  • Back to School Guide 2012
    Along with backpacks, school supplies, and uniforms, there’s always the constant rush to get back into a regular eating program when the school season starts. To help you through your lunchbox woes, The Daily Meals’ Back to School Guide ...

  • 12 Healthy Fixes for Not So Healthy Foods From Dr. Oz
    No matter how diligent we are with our diets, there are some foods that we just can’t resist. Whether it’s slathering our toast with butter or failing to pass by the box of donuts in the office, sometimes we just can’t say no to those...

  • A Back-to-School Potluck with the Entire Food Community
    The scent of fall is in the air, and if you're a parent, back-to-school lunches are on your mind. We’re constantly on the search for new and delicious ideas. To get into the spirit, we’re joining a virtual potluck with the Food Network to...

  • 12 Ways to Sneak Vegetables Into Kids' Lunchbox
    Let’s face it: we’re not always successful when it comes to getting our kids to eat healthy. No matter what we’ve tried — whether it is orange juice-braised carrots or cream cheese on the zucchini — it’s always a...

  • How to Make the Perfect Grilled Cheese
    A grilled cheese: the perfect combination of crunch, butter, and melted goodness. People just can’t get enough. Grilled cheeses are the perfect example of why we love cooking; without heat and technique, you’d never be able to obtain the...

  • Best of Maine Cooking
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  • End of Summer Grilling Recipes
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