Archive for the ‘Food People’ Category

How to Make a Champion Brisket

In my experience, there are two primary schools of brisket: Texas-style (slow-smoked for hours and served with white bread, pictured above) and Jewish-style (oven-braised for hours in a sweet-sour sauce often spiked with Manischewitz). But last week at the annual Brisket King of NYC competition, I experienced this fatty, flavorful cut of beef in ways [...]

Hurricane Sandy: A Message From Brooke Johnson

To our Food Network & Cooking Channel audience, First and foremost, if you have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and sound. Many of you probably didn’t realize, but our Food Network & Cooking Channel headquarters are located in lower Manhattan. Like most of that area, [...]

Do You Know The ‘Double or Muffin’ Man?

Get a top muffin recipe and tip from the co-founder of San Francisco’s Double or Muffin bakery.

Tyler Capps Learns to Cook Comically

Tyler Capps is not a professional chef. That is, he has no formal cooking training other than experimenting on his own in his small apartment kitchen. However, his blog, Cooking Comically, in which he cooks, photographs and creatively illustrates everyday recipes, has become an Internet sensation. A self-taught artist, Tyler is 28 years old and [...]

Finding Inspiration in Warmth

When planning the same holiday year after year, how do you keep your celebration fresh and interesting while maintaining a sense of tradition? We asked our favorite bloggers and food people to share what’s inspiring their Thanksgiving planning this year. From ancestor’s recipes and falling leaves, to beautiful piles of ingredients and thoughtful home decor, [...]

Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches for the Bacon Lover

If making ice cream at home wasn’t a family tradition growing up (like it was for Cooking Channel editor Kirsten Vala), making the good stuff yourself might seem like the tallest of tasks. But like any other goodie we’ve grown accustomed to ordering from over the counter, making the frozen treat at home is far [...]

Gumbo Secrets From the “Queen of Creole Cuisine”

“I went to Dooky Chase To get me something to eat The waitress looked at me and said Ray, you sure look beat, Now it’s early in the morning And I ain’t got nothing but the blues” —Ray Charles, “Early in the Morning Blues” For anyone traveling to New Orleans on a food pilgrimage, Dooky [...]

Adventures in State Fair Eating, or The Making of On a Stick!

I should have listened a bit more closely to the stern warnings of almost every person I know who has written a book. “It’s more work than you think it can be.” “You’ll gain 10 pounds.” “You’ll miss your regular life.” OK, alright, I admit that these are mostly from one end of the author spectrum [...]

The Best Seafood in the South

Charleston is a town steeped in history. The first shots of the Civil War were fired here. In fact, you can still find live cannon balls from the war in the oyster flats! But in the modern era, Charleston has become a tourist town where you can find some of the best seafood in the [...]

A Food Person’s Guide to Juice Cleansing

I decided to kick off the summer with a juice cleanse. Given the Food Person that I am, the most common reaction I received when I told people this was laughter, especially the part about how I’d chosen Memorial Day weekend as my detox window. The thinking behind this was not being sure I could focus at [...]

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