Category: cooking

If you’re a frequent meal prepper, you probably already have your routine locked down. You might have a designated day of the week that you do all of the shopping, cooking, portioning, and storing, or a trusted bundle of storage containers. TL;DR? You know how to set yourself up for a week of delicious meals....

Your standard blueberry muffin—the plastic-wrapped, purple-spotted, palm-sized treat that loiters in grocery aisles, coffee shops, and beside the register at your office cafeteria—usually maintains a straightforward ingredient list. Typically some combination of flour, eggs, sugar, salt, milk, and (of course) blueberries, these staples create a muffin that’s delicious, but often overly sweet. But there’s another...

Everyone in the Food52 world knows that we love to announce new arrivals. But of course we do—our talented buying team spends so much time and attention carefully curating our online shelves with home, kitchen, and outdoor goods we know our community will love. Our latest batch of arrivals featured a smattering of delightful home...

Since she started writing her column Absolute Best Tests in 2019, Ella Quittner has been fearlessly tackling some of our toughest cooking quandaries. In each installment of the long-running series, she goes to extreme lengths to answer a seemingly simple question: What is the best way to make a given dish? Through tests and trials,...