Alex Beggs
Contributor
Alex Beggs, previously a senior staff writer at Bon Appétit, covered a wide range of topics for the brand, including everything you need to know about cherries, a column on questionable etiquette, and the reasons why crispy foods reign supreme. Her Thanksgiving feature, “Absolutely Perfect,” earned a National Magazine Award in 2020. Currently, she works as a freelance writer and cookbook co-author based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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This Week at BA: A Claire Party, Drinking Vinegars, and a Fancy Restaurant Toilet
Senior editor Alex Beggs shares a throwback recipe and some Claire news in her weekly newsletter.
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BA’s Best Pesto Recipe Is Here and It's the Perfect Balance of Nuts, Herbs, and Cheese
Do you really need to blanch the basil? Toast the nuts? Grate the garlic? Here’s the deal.
Shopping
I Tasted All the Drinking Vinegars Out There and Here's My Review
Shot after shot, I went in search of the best-tasting vinegar drink around.
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Get Lost In the Swirls of This Strawberry-Coconut Ice Cream Pie
4 pints of ice cream, 1 coconutty crust, and the most stunning dessert you’ll make this summer.
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This Stuffed Eggplant Recipe Is Allllllll About the Crispy Beef
Learn how to roast eggplant until it’s creamy and caramelized, and then serve dinner on top of it.
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How to Cover Your Tracks with Chimichurri
Read about it in senior editor Alex Beggs’ weekly newsletter.
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The Plum Clafoutis Recipe That I Pair with Port, Puzzles, and Silk Pajamas
Fancy name, seriously easy dessert.
Recipes
The Summer Bucket List: 25 Recipes We Want to Make Before September Hits
The BA staff sounds out on the recipes we’ve got to make before the clock strikes fall and we all turn into pumpkin bread.
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We Went on a Field Trip
Senior editor Alex Beggs details Bon Appétit’s food tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
features
Trader Joe’s Newest Products in 2018, Reviewed
So many cookies. So many frozen snacks. Honest reviews you can use.
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Culture
7 Sweet Deals in My Fantasy Prime Day Shopping Cart
It’s PRIME DAY, PEOPLE. Gird your loins! Alexa, increase my credit limit! Click click buy!
Culture
The Cherry Pitter That Helped Me Make a Pie with 103 Sour Cherries
It spits out pits fast and clean, without Dexter-like cherry juice splatter.
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This Is Our Chillest Icebox Cake EVER
Because it’s just blackberries, jam, Nilla Wafers, and whipped cream. And it looks like a snowy mountain.
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This Fruit Tart Is Going Through Its Blue Period, Like Picasso
A new recipe to make all summer, or hang in MoMA.
Restaurants
The Houston Restaurant That Astronauts—and My Grandparents—Hit Up for Lunch
Astronauts are hard to spot in the wild, but lunch hour is the great equalizer.
Lifestyle
How Do You Snooze? What Your Alarm Clock Style Says About You
Your snooze button told us everything.
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Life Moves Fast. That’s Why You Gotta Take Your Breakfast Burrito To-Go.
And inside that burrito, there’s a layer of fluffy egg that will change your burrito technique forever.