My best advice for anyone seeking a crowd-pleasing chocolate dessert that requires no baking, minimal technique, and primarily pantry ingredients: Turn to meat. More specifically, cured, mold-encased meat secured with twine. You’re reading this correctly. Your next dessert should be salami—made from chocolate. Chocolate salami is a hand-rolled tube of chocolate stuffed with biscuits, nuts,...
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For the Perfect Fall Wine, Look to This French Region
With the help of our friends at Wines of Alsace, we’re highlighting four of the region’s most exciting wines—and ideas for how to pair them this fall. As the weather cools down and the leaves begin to change, my taste in wine shifts from rosés and spritzes to light reds and bright, refreshing whites. I get out...
5 Weeknight Dinners I’m Making Instead of Ordering Takeout (Again)
I moved into a new apartment a little over two weeks ago, and as anyone who’s ever moved knows, the process involves eating a lot of takeout—all your knives are in boxes, you don’t have any groceries, and you’re working in an unfamiliar, not-yet-home kitchen. It’s a solid excuse for the first week or so...
Paleo Chocolate Chip Tahini Blondies
Paleo Chocolate Chip Tahini Blondies Paleo chocolate chip tahini blondies that are gooey with nutty, earthy notes and chocolate puddles in every bite. These delicious grain free tahini blondies will be your go-to dessert for parties, or whenever you need something sweet. Let me just say that my whole tahini obsession was taken to a...
Preserve the Taste of Summer With These Tips From Epic Gardening
The bland taste of a supermarket tomato is one that Kevin Espiritu manages to avoid year-round. The expert gardener grows all of his own tomatoes—plus five dozen varieties of other fruits and vegetables—from a 7,000-square-foot plot in San Diego, then shares his hard-won growing knowledge with the 2.6 million subscribers of his YouTube video series,...