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Editors' Picks

Mini Saltines Are a Zillion Times Better Than the Bland, Regular Version

Shrink the cracker, get an entirely different product?
Culture

The Hotel Breakfast Buffet Is an Underrated Way To Get To Know a City

While a hotel breakfast is not the first image that comes to mind when traveling, it’s a legitimate and delicious avenue to explore local food culture.
Editors' Picks

When Seeking the Ultimate Crunchy Snack, Only Injera Crisps Will Do

The East African fermented flatbread gets the pita chip treatment.
Cooking

My Most-Requested Recipe Starts With a Bag of Frozen Peas

It's so easy, I'm almost embarrassed to share. 
Restaurants

My Favorite Place for Soup Is Hidden in a Pizza Restaurant

I’ll eat Taste of Persia’s ash reshteh even on sweltering New York summer days.
Culture

I Put This Condiment on Everything When I Can't Be Bothered to Make a Sauce

Brooklyn Delhi’s tomato achaar is a little spicy, a lot of awesome. 
Cooking

The 4-Ingredient Rice Porridge I Make When I'm Too Sick to Cook

That's the maximum number of ingredients I'm willing to deal with when sick.
Cooking

This Pesto Potato Salad Doesn't Know It's Beautiful

Don't let this salad be a wallflower—it really deserves to be the first one on the dance floor.
Restaurants

Chicken Parm Is My Self-Care

Finding the cure to what ails me under a blanket of cheese
Restaurants

When I Want to Be Alone, I Eat Dinner at the Bar at I Sodi

Nothing drowns my sorrows like a bowl of lemony pasta.
Cooking

Hey Imprecise Bakers, These Fancy-Looking Cookies Are for You

Avoid more complicated cookie recipes? This is your new (totally achievable! Totally impressive!) holiday baking mini-project.
Cooking

These Homemade Cheese Crackers Are for Sharp Cheddar Stans

You can go home now, mild cheddar.
Cooking

Why Casserole Your Sweet Potatoes When You Can Shingle Them?

Further proof that Thanksgiving sweet potatoes belong in camp savory.
Culture

‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is the New Netflix Series That's Very Much Worth Your Time

Host, chef, and cookbook author Samin Nosrat unlocks the basic tenets of cooking. But in a really non-stuffy way!
Cooking

I Ate This Swiss Chard Dip for Dinner and Feel Great About It

Dip for dinner is the best thing to happen to Monday nights.
Cooking

The Skirt Steak Recipe I Can Cook Even on My Old, Cheap Gas Grill

I used to have an irrational fear of grilling steak and messing it up—and then I met the no-fail skirt steak recipe of my dreams.