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Why Meal Planning Works and Cyber Monday Special We know that eating healthy, weight loss, and the weekly scramble of grocery shopping and getting dinner on the table every night is hard. All too often when we don’t have a plan in place, we end up reaching for processed foods, take-out, or eating plain chicken […]
[Photographs: Netflix] My friend Phil Rosenthal, the creator and host of the new Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil, is as much fun to talk to as he is to eat with. When I asked him how the show ended up on Netflix, he replied, “The way I sold the show…I said, ‘I’m exactly like Anthony […]
[Photograph: Eliesa Johnson. Rice photograph: Vicky Wasik] In part 2 of my interview with JJ Johnson, the charismatic chef and co-author of Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day, I had to ask him to explain the book’s lengthy subtitle word by word, and to explain what he and […]
[Photograph: Eliesa Johnson. Squash photograph: Vicky Wasik] My guest this week on Special Sauce is chef and cookbook author JJ Johnson. When I say he gravitated to kitchen work at an early age, I mean really early. He started cooking with his grandmother when he was four: “I didn’t really watch cartoons…I’d step on like […]
There’s even more reason than usual to visit the small country with big culinary appeal during Denmark’s Dining Week, in collaboration with S.Pellegrino, from 11 to 18 February 2018. The biggest restaurant festival of its kind in Europe has over 200 restaurants across the country joining this annual celebration, including the best and most interesting restaurants in […]
[Photograph: David Welch. Corn casserole photograph: Vicky Wasik] Here’s how the delightful and brave Jenny Allen describes the food at her family table in Part 2 of her Special Sauce interview: “Such bad food…and so little of it.” As that quote can attest, you can be sure there’s no shortage of pithy insights or jokes […]
[Photograph: David Welch. Cookie photograph: Vicky Wasik] Jenny Allen, the humorist and author of the guffaw-inducing new book Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, derives as much pleasure from eating as anyone I know. Consider this anecdote she shared with me about her food-loving stepmother: “One day she said, ‘I […]
[Photograph: Courtesy of Resy. Spicy Spring pizza photograph: Vicky Wasik] When Resy‘s Ben Leventhal, who has been involved in at least five food-related start-ups, speaks about entrepreneurship, I am all ears. Here are just a couple of the pearls of wisdom that came out of our in-depth conversation: “What I do try to say to […]
Today is the last day of the 25% membership sale for meal plans. Take advantage of this offer today and get meal plans all year long for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month! This meal plan membership gives you access to the regular, vegetarian, and low carb meal plans for […]
[Photograph: Courtesy of Resy. Chicken soup photograph: Vicky Wasik] The members list of the non-existent Digital Food Entrepreneur’s Club would be quite small, but it would have to include Ben Leventhal, who is both this and next week’s guest on Special Sauce. Ben cofounded Eater in 2005 and is now one of the cofounders of […]