37 Items Tagged

Cooking

Singapore, Singapore

Krishna's Kitchen

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

HazelQ

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Amsterdam Island, Norway

Smeerenburg Blubber Ovens

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

Tony Dunnell

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Wagner Manufacturing Company Factory

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

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Before the Easy-Bake Oven, Toy Stoves Were Beautiful and Deadly

They burned real fuel and caused real damage.

Researchers at This Base in Antarctica Eat Better Than You Do

And the chef does it with just one food shipment a year.

The Restaurant Reconstructing Recipes That Died With the Ottoman Empire

Eating like a sultan takes lots of detective work.

Alexandre Dumas’s Magnum Opus Was a Massive Cookbook

The French literary icon thought this 1,150-page compendium on cookery would be his masterpiece.

For Thousands of Years, People Have Been Obsessed With Fat-Tailed Sheep

Writers and artists found them entrancing.

February 05, 2019

In Medieval Baghdad, Rulers Held Elite Cook-Offs

The "Iron Chef of medieval times" could have serious consequences.

January 30, 2019

New York, New York

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Leigh ChavezBush

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Breaking Down the Physics of Wok Tossing

It is a subtle art and an even subtler science.

November 20, 2018

New Orleans, Louisiana

Kitchen Witch Cookbooks

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Leigh ChavezBush

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New York, New York

Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Leigh ChavezBush

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Reviving the Lost Tradition of Cooking Flowers

It was once common across rural Italy.

November 12, 2018

Living Off the Land in the Arctic Circle

In Lapland, chefs and residents hunt and gather to make bear soup, lingonberry syrup, and reindeer.

October 19, 2018

World Champion Squirrel Cook-Off

Gastro Obscura

World Champion Squirrel Cook-Off

An ardent celebration of a humble source of protein.

Gastro Obscura

Cara Giaimo

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Taguella

Gastro Obscura

Taguella

A desert dwellers’ delight, this bread gets baked in sand.

Gastro Obscura

Leigh ChavezBush

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Remembering the Cookbook Author Who Made Microwave Meals Gourmet

Barbara Kafka bucked assumptions about kitchen appliances.