Kale Massage and The Kitchn Cookbook on Skinny Taste — As Seen In

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Life is just better after a nice massage, amiright? But did you know that kale tastes better if you give it a quick massage too? Well, we did and you’re welcome. Skinny Taste featured The Kitchn Cookbook and our scrumptious Massaged Raw Kale Salad recipe on their site. Grab yourself some kale tonight and give this super food a little TLC.

Check out the recipe over on Skinny Taste…

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5 Things I Learned the First Time I Went to Trader Joe’s — Grocery Intelligence

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There isn’t a Trader Joe’s in my town, but I run with hipsters, so I was pretty sure I knew all about it. The grocery store of cheeses, acai berries, Fair Trade oatmeal, and probably a stunning array of hummus? Home of Two-Buck Chuck, the world’s #1 cheap wine? A smaller version of Whole Foods?

Then I heard a rumor that all the canned goods under the Trader Joe’s house label are packaged in BPA-free cans (and store receipts are printed on BPA-free paper), which had me wondering—how on earth did we not know about this before? Naturally, I needed to know more.

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What’s the Deal with Interstellar’s Idea That Corn and Okra Are the Only Crops Left in the Future? Let’s Ask a Scientist. — Food on Film

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Interstellar, the new movie from Christopher Nolan, comes out today, and as a lover of sci-fi epics, I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. But as a food writer the basic premise made me do a double take. In the near future the world’s soil, through blight or exhaustion, has stopped supporting all food crops except for corn and okra.

Is there any basis to this premise? A far-fetched yet theoretically possible superbug? And, if there was some massive worldwide die-off of crops, would corn and okra really be the last crops standing? If not, what will we be eating as our spaceships lift off for the the Kuiper Belt? I decided to ask a scientist and find out.

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Here’s What You Can Prep Now for Thanksgiving Dinner — Tips from The Kitchn

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I’m not quite sure how the Thanksgiving dinner evolved into such a big and complicated meal. Who can realistically pull off roasting a massive bird and cook all the side dishes that are now deemed a standard part of the meal without going a little insane? Be smart and make bits and pieces of your meal ahead, before the madness sets in.

Let me walk you through each dish on the Thanksgiving table and give you some tips and pointers on what you can do now — and what should wait for later!

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Recipe: Pumpkin Pie in a Mug — Recipes from The Kitchn

If you love pumpkin pie and just can’t wait until Thanksgiving dinner to taste your first slice, then I have a dessert for you. This is a little cup of pumpkin pie, mug cake-style, with a gingersnap crust and snappy spices, and it feeds just one person: you. Make it in a mug, in the microwave, and you can be eating pumpkin pie 10 minutes from right now.

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Here’s Why You Should Never Throw Out Potato Peels — Tips from The Kitchn

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This plate is stacked high with crispy, chewy snacks that fall somewhere between potato chips and French fries — and it’s all because I didn’t throw out my potato scraps. Yes, my potato peels — the ones I made while peeling spuds for mashed potatoes.

Now that I know this snack trick, I’m never throwing out my potato peels again, and here’s why you shouldn’t either.

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