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Video: The Inquirer's best tips for ice skating this winter

DEMUXER_ERROR_NO_SUPPORTED_STREAMS: FFmpegDemuxer: no supported streams The Inquirer's Jamila Robinson and Ellen Dunkel visit Rothman Orthopaedics Ice Rink in Center City to give you their best tips for ice skating this winter.

This Fall's Most Anticipated Food Books Have a Sense of History

Through deeply personal memoirs and compelling biographies, this fall's new releases feature authors, celebrity chefs, and industry personalities delivering a sharp view of why they cook—and behave—as they do. Host of CNN's Searching for Italy…

Celebrate tomato season with our 5 favorite recipes

These tomato recipes, from a refreshing update on a classic cocktail to a modern celebration of Philly’s classic tomato pie, are sure to inspire. When they’re at their peak, tomatoes need nothing more than a bit of salt and pepper to highlight their…

Subscribe to These Food Newsletters, Make Your Inbox More Delicious

Some of the best food writers are going direct-to-inbox. Food Newsletters used to revolve around weeknight recipes and updates from your neighborhood bistro. But lately, they've evolved into a medium where emerging food writers shape their critical…

Making the Perfect Cooking Playlist Is Part Art, Part Algorithm

Siri, play music for a barbecue. Alexa, I'm cooking. play some music. "Here is some music you might like," the robot replies, before rocking my smart speaker with an algorithmically inspired cross-section of my music. While chopping, sautéing, or…

The Rising Tide of Food Illustrations That Fill Your Feed with Delicious Doodles

From bingeable shows to frame-worthy cookbook pages, food illustrations are enjoying a renaissance right now. Maybe it's because these sketches and paintings offer a soothing, simpler alternative to overstimulating video loops or GIFs-or maybe it's…

How Manga Took Over the Menu

If you've ever been yearning to visit Japan, an excellent place to start is with the latest season of the Japanese Netflix series Midnight Diner, set inside a Tokyo izakaya and featuring Master, a chef who opens his restaurant from midnight until…

It's Not Easy Buying Beans, Even in Vanilla-Loving Oaxaca

Though the world's favorite spice is indigenous to the country and has been cultivated in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz going back to the Aztecs, finding whole beans that have not been slated for export illustrates the worldwide vanilla shortage…

These Social Media Stars Got Famous for Reviewing Food Videos

It's fair to call the videos social media star Dana Caldwell creates "reviews"; after all, from her accounts @decadent_dayne on Instagram and TikTok, she offers a play-by-play—or, better yet, dice-by-brunoise—video analysis of the work of chefs and…

"Breakfast Challenge" Is TikTok's Most Delicious Soundtrack

Egg dishes are often the stars of internet video breakfast challenges. There's always some chopping, whisking, and plating, but the ones with the most likes and views tend to include a body roll or a shoulder shimmy. In fact, millions of people have…

A chocolate ricotta pie is a rich, decadent cheesecake. You'll only need a sliver.

Every year around Valentine’s Day, I get a flood of DMs, texts, and emails from friends and strangers asking for a good chocolate recipe. As much as food media people like me would love to steer our fellow eaters toward, say, bright blood orange…

French Seafood Bisque with Baguette

The freshest seafood—preferably sourced from your local fishmonger—is the highlight of this velvety-smooth bisque. Take care to cook each type as directed to preserve its delicate flavor and texture. This resourceful recipe uses every last bit of…

Holiday cookie decorating gets a sprinkle of charm and culture

Before I begin piping royal icing onto a gingerbread person, I like to give the cookie a backstory and a place to go. If it’s going to brunch or a tea, I’ll try to pipe on a pretty polka-dot dress in bright colors. If the cookies are going on an ice…

Holiday cookie decorating gets a sprinkle of charm and culture

Before I begin piping royal icing onto a gingerbread person, I like to give the cookie a backstory and a place to go. If it’s going to brunch or a tea, I’ll try to pipe on a pretty polka-dot dress in bright colors. If the cookies are going on an ice…

These 21 cookbooks make perfect holiday gifts this year

If there is one bright spot to this year’s lockdown, it has been that we’ve all spent more time at home, experimenting with breads, nailing Aunt Suzy’s biscuits, or sheet-pan dishes. Many of the cookbooks released this year mirror larger societal…

Add this easy pumpkin cheesecake tart to your Thanksgiving dessert table

In the meme-based pumpkin pie vs. sweet potato pie war, I am on the side of sweet potato. Though the fall flavors of cinnamon and clove are similar, I prefer the brightness and texture of sweet potato intermingling with buttery, flaky pastry for the…

After you get the apple cider, it’s time to make doughnuts

Among the highlights of visiting an apple orchard are those hot, crispy apple cider doughnuts. After a day of picking apples, they are a treat. There’s no need to wait until the next apple-picking season to enjoy these fall favorites when you can…

If a recipe calls for ricotta, you can make it at home

Joining sourdough and Dalgona coffee, homemade ricotta has become one of the Instagram recipe stars of the pandemic, with thousands of home cooks sharing pictures of their curdled milk products draining in cheesecloth or smeared over toast with…

Ready for a getaway | Let’s Eat

Michael Klein is taking a well-deserved vacation this week. As we head into the Labor Day weekend, we’ve been thinking about other kinds of getaways. We’ve got a road trip to a Lititz farm raising Mangalista pigs, cookbooks that will take you on…

Miss traveling? This year’s cookbooks will take you around the world.

Not long ago, in the before-the-pandemic times it seemed so easy to hop on a plane, and within a few hours, be in a different world. The cultural exchange could start with a restaurant recommendation from a taxi driver, or by stumbling into a farmers…