How To Open Coconuts Without Any Tools
AdultsCreativityFoodHow-to...If you're not a coconut cracking ninja from Samoa, then you'll need an easier way to bust coconuts for pleasure, or for survival. This is the easiest and most effective way I've found to do it, when you don't have any tools.
How to Make Life-Changingly Good Cream Puffs | From the Test Kitchen
AdultsCreativityFoodHow-toThe cream puff is the Eiffel Tower of Parisian pastries: iconic, beloved, and displayed everywhere. The recipe is so irrefutably timeless that even Pierre Herme, France's most famous (and endlessly innovative) pastry chef, still uses the formula he learned as a 14-year-old apprentice.
Binging with Babish: Szechuan Sauce Revisited (From Real Sample!)
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentLast round, my efforts to recreate the fabled McDonald's Szechuan Sauce were wild, flailing shots in the dark, pathetic and meager attempts to recreate a long-lost condiment out of scanty information and back-alley sources.
Why We Eat Too Much
AdultsFoodHealthPsychologyWe're hugely invested in the idea that the cause of obesity lies with diet - and that we should therefore solve the problem with kale and apple soup (and other such products). But the real cause of obesity has nothing to do with food. It lies in our emotional under-nourishment. We will start to eat less when we feel more connected, more understood and more in touch with our feelings.
Chocolate's newest color
AdultsCreativityFoodScienceThere's milk, dark, white, and now, ruby chocolate. It's made naturally from ruby cocoa beans and tastes sour.
Binging with Babish: Hors D'oeuvres Sandwich from Back to School
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentRodney Dangerfield made a career on thumbing his nose at social mores, making sexual advances toward older women, and eating a giant sandwich made out of hors d'oeuvres.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
AdultsCreativityFoodTechnology...This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
Kids Try 100 Years of Sandwiches from 1900 to 2000 | Bon Appetit
AdultsCreativityCultureFood...We had a panel of kids prepare and taste test 100 years of sandwiches from 1900 to today. Here's what they thought about PBJs, po' boys, paninis, and everything in between.
Binging with Babish: The Fitz Sandwich from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentPre-order my first cookbook, Eat What You Watch: A Cleverly-Titled Romp Through the Fanciful Fetes of Fiction! Really it's just called Eat What You Watch, but I totally should have called it that instead.
Binging with Babish: Courtesan au Chocolat from Grand Budapest Hotel
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentWes Anderson's films are rife with clashing color schemes, furrow-browed pedantry, and rich character development set against an oddly symmetrical backdrop. In the case of The Grand Budapest Hotel, it's also home to a pastry as precious as its parentage.
The science behind the Impossible Burger
AdultsCreativityFoodNeuroscience...The Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.
Binging with Babish: Puerco Pibil from Once Upon a Time in Mexico
AdultsCreativityFoodFilmOnce Upon a Time in Mexico, against all odds, played a large role in the creation of BwB - my first-ever DVD, its special features showed me that I could one day be a filmmaker *and* a chef. In this 2003 Banderas action-comedy, Johnny Depp inexplicably caps a cook for making this Yucatanian special a bit too perfectly; as director Robert Rodriguez says, make at your own peril.
Croque Madame: The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich
AdultsCreativityFoodCookingSpecial thanks to SCJ for shooting - the ultimate breakfast sandwich for hangovers, one-night-stands, or both. This video was made in response to a Reddit AMA question: What's your favorite breakfast sandwich?
100 Years of Family Dinners ? Mode.com
AdultsCreativityFoodHistory...Foodie fans, this one's for you! Whether you lean toward 1915-style roast beef and franconia potatoes, or if 2015's kale craze suits your taste, this look at food over the past century will satiate your palate.
Binging with Babish: Lemon Pepper Wet from Atlanta
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentLemon Pepper Wet is an Atlantan institution, virtually unknown outside the Peach State until Donald Glover's groundbreaking series made us salivate without even showing us the pay dirt. Look behind the Pulp-Fiction-style glowing MacGuffin and see the saucy, zesty wings underneath with this week's episode. Shout out to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt for his groundbreaking oven wing technique.
Why We Hate Cheap Things
AdultsFoodPersonal FinanceEconomy...In assessing what material things are important and worth paying attention to, we're oddly prejudiced against cheapness - and frustratingly drawn to the expensive, for reasons that don't necessarily stand up to examination.
The real secret to sushi isn't fish
AdultsCreativityFoodCultureHere's how it rolled from rice paddies into your burrito.