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Chrissy Teigen Loves This Olive Oil, Even If It Angers Purists

A Brooklyn startup has disturbed olive oil purists by selling its product in squeezable plastic bottles.
By Nina Roberts

The Best Gifts to Bring Your Summer Beach House Host

What better way to secure a second invitation than bringing a thoughtful gift?
By Morgan Halberg
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Ten Productive Ways to Fight Boredom During and After Quarantine

If you’ve been in quarantine since March, you’re probably finding that, aside from all the other terrible things this year has produced, it’s been incredibly boring.
By Observer Content Studio

Prince William Joked About His Subpar Cooking Skills for a Charitable Cookbook

By Morgan Halberg

Blue Apron’s Stock Just Soared, and It Has a New CEO—But Are We Actually Using Meal Kits?

By Helen Holmes

‘Queer Eye’ Star Antoni Porowski Describes the First Meal He Cooked for His Boyfriend

By Helen Holmes

An Ode to the Instant Pot, New York’s Necessary Cooking Tool

By Margaret Abrams
Healthyish.

Is the Healthyish Movement the New Farm-to-Table Trend?

By Margaret Abrams
Chef Carla Hall.

Chef Carla Hall’s Approach to Mindful Eating Includes ‘Hamburger Time’

By Taylor Tobin
Mellow Sous Vide.

10 Smart Kitchen Devices Every Aspiring Home Chef Needs

By Kris Ruby
At Home with Amy Sedaris.

Serial Entertainer Amy Sedaris Cooks Up Comedy in New Home Show

By Anne Easton
Oh god

The Food Network Produced the Best Horror Movie of the Year

By Dana Schwartz
Sign me up.

This $25 Pasta-From-Scratch Class in NYC Will Teach You to Cook Italian Like a Pro

By Sage Lazzaro
"The title alone made me instantly want to befriend its author."

Set the Right Tone At Your Table with Tips From Marc J. Sievers’ “Table for Two”

By Britten Leigh Wolfe
The Champagne & Caviar Oyster

A Former Per Se Chef Is Serving Oysters Topped With Caviar and Champagne

By Zachary Weiss
Urfa Biber, Turkish chili flakes

Smoky and Spicy, Try Urfa Biber–Turkish Chili Flakes–On Fish, Salads, and More

By Liseanne Frankfurt
Chef Kevin O'Connor

Dining in Australia With Cobram Estate’s Wunderkind Chef, Kevin O’Connor

By Zachary Weiss
Overnight Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding

For A Healthy Breakfast (That Tastes Like Dessert): Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding

By Jordana Warmflash
This is not your regular refrigerator.

This Genius Feature on Samsung’s New Refrigerator Will Change the Way We Eat

By Sage Lazzaro
Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos at their Brooklyn restaurant The Tuscan Gun.

The Italian Job: Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos on Spicing Up the Kitchen

By Drew Grant
Fresh baked Anadama with smoked eel, spicy radish and parsley.

Scramble for NYC’s Best Eggs

By Joshua David Stein
MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 21: Food on display at the Touche Dinner hosted by Robert Irvine and Carla Pellegrino during the 2015 Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by FOOD & WINE at Touche Rooftop Lounge & Restaurant on February 21, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Zoltan LeClerc/Getty Images For SOBEWFF)

Meet the Creator of the World’s Most Successful Food Festival

By Zachary Weiss
Home Chef The price: -$9.95 per serving on meals -$4.95 per serving on smoothies and fruit selections Free shipping when you order three or more meals, or else shipping is $10 (but often free anyway with promotions) The plan: When you create your Home Chef account, you choose how many meals you want to receive each week (from two up to seven) and how many servings of each (either two or four), and you're then charged per serving. As per usual, you can change your plan at any time. Home Chef has the largest variety of meals out of any of these services. Each week, 10 dinners are available as are one smoothie recipe and one bag of season fruit. When you sign up, you're also asked to answer a few questions about your eating habits and desires (do you have any allergies? prioritize low-carb meals?, etc.), which the system uses to recommend meals. Recipes I tried: 1) Thyme- and rosemary-roasted pork tenderloin, with apple cider sauce and broccoli mash 2) Black bean burger, with roasted sweet potato fries 3) Mushroom parmesan penne pasta, with basil, tomatoes and a side of toasted baguette 4) Kale and avocado fall detox smoothie 5) S'mores smoothie Pros and cons of my experience: + The food was pretty good, and the bread was surprisingly fresh and delicious. + The recipe cards included wine and beer pairings. + The recipes included some nice cooking tips that can be used beyond these recipes + Calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, fiber and sodium values were listed on the recipe cards. - There was an unnecessary amount of packaging and it was all plastic. It seemed very wasteful. - The spices weren't all labeled and the basil was slightly wilted. Overall, Home Chef has a lot of good things going for it. The options and variety of recipes is by far the best, and when you go on the site to choose your meals, everything from allergens to low-calorie and low-carb indicators are clear and visible before you even click the recipes. The food was all pretty good and simple to make. My rating: 3.5/5 Pictured: Thyme- and rosemary-roasted pork tenderloin, with apple cider sauce and broccoli mash

We Tried Blue Apron, Hello Fresh and Their 4 Competitors—One Was Clearly the Best

By Sage Lazzaro

Winter Season Recipes from Sprouted Kitchen Will Help You Up Your Lunch Game

By Alexa Jaccarino
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