It’s incredible how a single ingredient can change a chef’s perspective. For me it was the coconut.

Though I’ve spent years in kitchens across the U.K., it wasn’t until I moved to Mustique that I discovered the wonders of this fascinating little fruit…

Fast Food workers across the nation went on strike on Thursday (“Hundreds of Fast-Food Workers Striking for Higher Wages Are Arrested,” NYT, 9/4/14) And if you walk into one of the chains–Burger King, McDonalds, KFC or Popeye’s, to name a few–you m…

At Dîner en Blanc, 1,200 people put up with absurd rules, wore white, ate, drank, and danced to European club music. And somehow it was actually fantastic.

Only you need to know just how speedy these meals really are.

By Lynn Andriani

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Soft boiled eggs have long lived in the shadows of the all-impressive poached eggs. Poached eggs are trickier to prepare, which makes them automatically more desirable. They’re the star of weekend brunches. Plus, they usually come with hollandaise sauc…

The only flawed thing about pizza is the pizza box. It consumes a tremendous amount of refrigerator space and is terribly difficult to dispose of: It calls for strong arms and a foot-stomping jig to fit inside any conventionally-sized garbage can.

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