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Sam Dean

Sam Dean is a former staff writer for BonAppetit.com. He lives in Brooklyn.

Cooking

Dress Your iPhone in Asparagus and Kale

Or anything else you want, really: Uncommon lets you customize your iPhone case with your own photos
Culture

Watch a Rally Car Crash into a French Gewurztraminer Vineyard

Watch a Norwegian rally car driver plow through an Alsatian vineyard
Culture

A Photo of the Disneyland Staff Cafeteria in 1961

Check out this cast of costumed characters at the Disney Employee Cafeteria circa 1961
Lifestyle

The Coffee Rescue Coffee Ambulance Brings Emergency Java to Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI just got its first food trucks, and one's serving hot joe out of an old ambulance
Cooking

Parsnips, Let Us Count the Ways

We're feelin' on you right now
Culture

Start Making Your Own Limoncello in Time for Holiday After-Meal Toasts

The sugary sour of summer (plus some overproof spirits to warm you up for winter)
Lifestyle

New Study Finds the Key to Some Food Pairings Might Be All in the Mouthfeel

New research suggests mouthfeel, as much as flavor, makes for the best food and drink pairings
Lifestyle

Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte Syrup Shortage

A panic grips a handful of people fixated on one coffee beverage
Culture

25 Food Costumes You Probably Don't Want to Wear on Halloween

Twenty-five food costumes you might want to avoid for Halloween
Cooking

Great Taste Dumplings

It's an old joke, but the economics of small restaurants is not much of a laugh
Cooking

A Recipe for Homemade Sriracha, for Die-Hard DIYers

Oh, it can be done. Just ask Carey Nershi of Reclaiming Provincial
Culture

Watch Christpher Walken and Richard Belzer Cook Dinner with Two Models

What else could you possibly want to watch right now?
Culture

Olympic Provisions Stops by the Bon Appetit Kitchen with Many Cured Meats

Portland's premier salumeria stops by the Bon Appetit kitchen
Culture

PDT's Jim Meehan Shows You How to Drink Whiskey Straight

This is less obvious than it sounds
Lifestyle

The 15 Professions That Boast the Biggest Caffeine Junkies

Check these top 15 coffee-addicted professions, then check your blood pressure
Lifestyle

An Apple a Day Now Proven to Keep the Doctor Away

A new study finds that apples somehow decrease the amount of "bad cholesterol" in your system
Culture

Luxury Chicks

Sorry truffles, you've been out-classed
Culture

Every Single Drink in Mad Men in One Five-Minute Video

They actually had to speed up the video to fit in all the tippling!
Lifestyle

The Berlin Airlift and Lt. Gail Halvorsen's "Operation Little Vittles"

Yes, there were times when getting a sugar fix was a political act
Culture

Inside Insides

Apparently food artist and MRI technologist Andy Ellison, that's who