Ingredients
Kitchen Intelligence
The Best Substitutes for Brown Sugar
If you have a well-stocked pantry, you probably have a brown sugar substitute.
Kitchen Intelligence
8 Types of Butter and How to Use Them
Cultured, compound, clarified—what’s the difference? Learn about the many types of butter and how to use them in your cooking and baking projects.
Origin Stories
Recipe Roundup
27 Black Bean Recipes for Easy, Hearty Meals
Our favorite ways to cook black beans, whether you start with canned or dried.
Kitchen Intelligence
What Are Shell Beans—And How Do You Cook Them?
Available in their dried, canned, and frozen form year-round, fresh shell beans are really a prize of late summer. And their time is now.
Kitchen Intelligence
8 Great Substitutes for Cornstarch
Out of cornstarch? Don’t want to use it? No problem. These alternatives have you covered.
Mascarpone
23 Dreamy Ways to Use Mascarpone
Our best mascarpone recipes include riffs on tiramisu, rich vegetarian lasagna, and a vintage cake doused in sherry.
Kitchen Intelligence
12 Types of Potatoes and How to Cook With Them
No, sweet potatoes aren’t actually potatoes. Yes, we’re covering them anyway.
Recipe Roundup
31 Butternut Squash Recipes You’ll Absolutely Fall For
These autumnal dishes highlight the natural sweetness of butternut squash.
Pantry All-Star
What’s So “Nutritional” About Nutritional Yeast?
These funky flakes might be the O.G. health food fad.
Recipe Roundup
79 Apple Recipes for Making the Most of Your Orchard Haul
These sweet and savory apple recipes include mains for dinner, festive sides, crunchy apple salads, and fall desserts.
Recipe Roundup
23 Potato Salads for Parties, Potlucks, and Picnics
All the potato salad recipes you need this summer.
Recipe Roundup
53 Chicken Breast Recipes for Flavorful, Juicy (Yes, Juicy) Dinners
Reinvigorate your weeknight dinner routine—and finally use up that pack of poultry in your freezer—with our best recipes for chicken breast.
Pantry All-Star
Ramen Seasoning Packets Are the Flavor-Boosting Secret Your Cooking Needs
These tiny umami-packed flavor pouches can turn any savory dish into better versions of itself.
Recipe Roundup
29 Green Bean Recipes That Go Beyond the Simple Sauté
Show off the versatility of this long, lanky legume with our best green bean recipes.
Pantry All-Star
Spicy Giardiniera Is a Busy Cook’s Best-Kept Secret
Turn up the flavor of your pasta sauce and your tuna salad with this jarred condiment from the Windy City
Shopping
The Cult Hot Sauces You Can Score on Amazon
Turn up the Scoville scale with these bottles of lip-tingling hot sauces that we just can’t get enough of.
Recipe Roundup
27 Fennel Recipes for Crunchy Salads and Savory-Sweet Sides
Whether shaved into crunchy ribbons or caramelized and golden-sweet, fennel enhances every dish it touches.
Recipe Roundup
37 Watermelon Recipes for Your Juiciest Summer Yet
A ripe red slice and the seed-spitting contest that follows are great. These recipes are better.
Pantry All-Star
How Shelf-Stable Gnocchi Became a Dinner Hero
This once-disparaged ingredient has become pantry gold for chefs and cookbook authors.
Recipe Roundup
23 Rum Drinks to Get You in a Summer Mood
These recipes will help your favorite bottle shine.
Recipe Roundup
29 Tequila Drinks to Give Your Signature Margarita Some Competition
Margaritas are great, but there’s so much to do with tequila beyond shaking it up with lime juice and orange liqueur.