Holidays & Events
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13 Halloween Dinner Ideas for Before the Candy Feast
Trick-or-treating gets cold. These dinners will warm you up.
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31 Birthday Cake Recipes to Make All Your Wishes Come True
Gifts are nice and all, but nothing beats homemade birthday cake.
Give Your Apple Cake the Sticky Toffee Pudding Treatment
For this Rosh Hashanah dessert, warm, buttery cake is filled with tart apples and drizzled with toffee sauce. Think apple cake meets sticky toffee pudding.
Be the Host With the Most
Nothing Says Thanksgiving Like a Spreadsheet
Meet the people tackling the holiday dinner with colorful spreadsheets, elegant scrum boards, and very organized Google drives.
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29 Pumpkin Desserts to Bake Your Way Through Fall
Pie is just the start.
This Fluffy Whipped Cream Cake Is Just Right for Any and Every Occasion
This fluffy and ethereally light Chinese bakery–style whipped cream cake is my family’s go-to dessert for special occasions.
This Over-The-Top Shrimp Cocktail Is an Instant Party Starter
Serving shrimp with a trio of sauces turns any night into a full-on rager.
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Thanksgiving
43 Thanksgiving Cocktails to Pair With Turkey, Pie, and Beyond
Whether served with hors d’oeuvres or sipped post-pie, these Thanksgiving cocktails make for a more festive holiday.
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Thanksgiving
23 Biscuits, Rolls, and Popovers for Your Thanksgiving Bread Basket
Bring on the fluffy rolls.
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Thanksgiving
61 Easy Thanksgiving Recipes for a Less-Stressful Feast
These easy-to-prepare recipes will ensure a delicious holiday.
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Recipe Roundup
29 Punch Recipes for Easy, Elegant Entertaining
It’s the set-it-and-forget-it of the cocktail kingdom.
Shopping
71 Best Friend Gifts (That You Might Be Tempted to Keep)
Good tea, handmade mugs, herbaceous aperitifs, plenty of chocolate, and a houseplant or two.
Shopping
The Best Mosquito Repellents for Outdoor Dining, Tested and Reviewed
Is there really a product out there that will keep these bugs away from our food?
Amazon Prime Day
19 Kitchen Deals Epi Readers Loved This Prime Day
Here’s what your fellow home cooks are buying on sale this year.
Shopping
This Amazon Prime Day, I'm Taking Matters Into My Own Hands and Buying a Soda Stream
Seltzer. All the time.
Gift Guide
The 88 Best Gifts for Dads Who Like to Cook
And we promise none of them are whiskey stones.
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Fourth of July
41 Fourth of July Desserts for Star-Spangled Summer Fun
These patriotic desserts will be a hit at any Independence Day celebration.
Shopping
The 61 Best Gifts Under $20 for the Cooks and Food Lovers in Your Life
Including upgraded versions of staple kitchen tools, pretty glassware, and flavorful condiments.
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Memorial Day
Welcome Summer With These 31 Memorial Day Recipes
Pack your holiday weekend with fried fish sandwiches, gingery grilled chicken, and low-effort, high-reward desserts.
Shopping
54 Thoughtful Gifts Moms Actually Want
We hate to break it to you, but she doesn’t want another apron.
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Easter
37 Classic Easter Recipes From the Pages of Gourmet
Start with creamy deviled eggs, and you can’t go wrong.
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The Menu
Celebrate Nowruz With a Menu Full of Fresh Herbs, Pistachios, and Saffron
This feast of herby rice, kookoo sabzi, and plenty of sweets will help you ring in the Iranian new year.
Easter
Essential Easter Recipes for Your 2023 Celebration
Grab your Easter basket and hop in—you’ll want to collect each and every one of these fun and easy Easter recipes.
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Recipe Roundup
61 Easter Desserts, Each One Better Than a Chocolate Egg
No Easter basket or pandering to bunnies required.
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Recipe Roundup
53 Easter Cakes Full of Fresh Fruit and Pastel Charm
These seasonal stunners earned the Easter bunny’s stamp of approval.
Cake
Celebrate Holi With This Floral, Softly Spiced Thandai Poke Cake
Thandai masala—a mixture of ground nuts, seeds, spices, and rose petals—is the key this refreshing Holi beverage, but you should also bake it into your next poke cake.