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Elyssa Goldberg

Associate Web Editor. When she’s not posted up at a café, reading and praying that sipping her cappuccino won’t mean sacrificing a night’s sleep, Elyssa writes about food culture and restaurant trends for bonappetit.com. The team’s unrelenting sweet tooth and beverage nerd, Elyssa can also be found refreshing the Wait-or-Buy Now feature on kayak.com. One of these days, you should really ask her to tell you how much she loves IHOP. Spirit food: Penne alla vodka and a seltzer (no ice)

Culture

Meet the Next Superfood Flour Coming Straight from a Science Lab

Crystal ball (and a food scientist) says the most exciting thing in coffee's future is baked goods.
Culture

It's the 20th Anniversary of 'Big Night'! The Cast Talks Italian Food, Their Signature Dishes, and Yes, That Timpano

Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, and Isabella Rossellini, the cast of 'Big Night,' talks Italian food, home cooking, and their favorite restaurants.
Where to eat

An Actually Useful Guide to Birmingham, Alabama

We're going to Birmingham, Alabama—and Urban Standard's Trevor Newberry is showing us the ropes. This is Spilling the Beans.
Restaurants

The Egg Dish That's Had Japanese People Lining Up for 250 Years

Tamahide Restaurant in Tokyo is a restaurant so popular people line up for hours to taste the chef's most famous dish.
Culture

A Sommelier Taste-Tests 6 Fancy New Bottled Waters

Has the recent water craze gone too far?
Culture

What It's Like to Cook on Khloe Kardashian's New TV Show

Expect only very photogenic food on Khloe Kardashian's new talk show.
Culture

If Jennifer Aniston Is Making You Dinner, It's Probably This

What does Jennifer Aniston eat at home? And what food is she powerless against?
Culture

How Baristas Feel About Starbucks' New Latte Macchiato

Seriously, what is this drink?
Culture

DJ Khaled's Chef Dee on the Meals They Don't Want You to Have

They don't want you to have food as good as Chef Dee's.
techniques

Donabe: The One-Pot Wonder for All Your Kitchen Needs

How to use a donabe, a ceramic Japanese pot that’s approximately one zillion times simpler to use than that tagine you've never touched.
Restaurants

Oven Fires, Split Pants, and Make Out Sessions: Tales from Open Kitchens

It's hard (and hilarious) to make mistakes when you're a chef at a restaurant with an open kitchen.
Culture

The Best Food We Ate This Year

Our staff traveled and ate, ate and traveled, and these were the best foods they had in 2015.
Where to eat

An Actually Useful Guide to Miami, Florida

Heading to Miami? Let Victoria Gonzalez-Bredy be your guide. This is Spilling the Beans, where a city's most in-the-know barista gives us the lowdown on where to go, what to do, and what to eat in their hometown.
Culture

2015: The Year in Cakes

Remember the good times. 2015, as told by cakes.
Culture

This Cocktail Is Made with Dirt

But, yes, you want to drink it.