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Your 2025 MVPs (Most Valuable Plates)
Forget trends. Here’s what you actually cooked in 2025. From a sleeper hit cider chicken to reinvented classics, discover the best recipes you voted as…
Dec 31, 2025
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The Snacks That Save the Holidays
Hospitality isn’t about having everything—it’s about making something with what you have.
Dec 27, 2025
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From Portugal, with Love
It's the making of the food, not the food itself that's our Christmas tradition.
Dec 6, 2025
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It's Soup (and Stew) o'Clock Somewhere
Soups, like cocktails, should have a designated hour, I decree.
Dec 3, 2025
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I'll Have a Norman Rockwell Christmas if It Kills Me
Cookies and hot chocolate and candy canes, dammit!
Dec 1, 2025
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14 Telltale Signs a Recipe Sucks
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Yeast are Never Depressed
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Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone?
Aug 22, 2025
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The Pan Snoot
Jan 18, 2025
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Autumn Baking Series, Part 1: The Foundation
Be a better baker, not a better recipe follower.
Oct 25, 2025
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14 Telltale Signs a Recipe’s a Winner
Really great writers make it look effortless.
Aug 8, 2025
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Tart of Gold: Spring Rhubarb
Everything you wanted to know about rhubarb but were afraid to ask. (Oh wait, that's sex.) Eh, what the hell – I think rhubarb is sexy. There, I said…
May 3, 2025
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Burnt Offerings: My Epic Thanksgiving Fail, Courtesy of Endless Likes
From Instagram adulation to a full-blown kitchen inferno: Discover my hilarious Thanksgiving baking blunder where chasing likes led to forgotten…
Nov 13, 2025
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Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone?
No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?
Aug 22, 2025
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Call Me Sugar Daddy
A chorus of pretty young things flit through my days, demand endless indulgences, and take me for all I'm worth. And I couldn't be happier.
Jul 21, 2025
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