Sam Dean

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

Culture

Watch Sean Brock's Grain Dinner Happen

The filmmakers behind The Perennial Plate stopped in South Carolina for an heirloom grains dinner--a collaboration between the chef and Anson Mills founder Glenn Roberts

Culture

Watch the Making of Wax Cabbage In Japan

It's pretty magical

Culture

Kobayashi sets world grilled cheese record; the politics of bread in Egypt

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Culture

Watch Stop-Motion Not-Exactly Guacamole Get Made

And see "dicing" taken to its literal extreme

Culture

Is high fructose corn syrup really bad for you?; Doritos shell tacos now on sale at Taco Bell

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Cooking

Corn Dog Muffins

For, perhaps, a more genteel type of county fair

Culture

Chocolate milk makers targeting grown-up athletes; Wolfgang Puck's weird thank-you videos to Twitter followers

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Culture

An Easy-to-Read and Video-Illustrated Homebrew Primer

Start now, and you'll have a couple gallons of suds ready by early summer

Culture

Watch Stephen Colbert Hunger for Second Breakfasts and Denounce Candy Bar Shrinking

He also points out that it was Tolkien, not Taco Bell, who invented the Second Breakfast

Culture

Coke modifies caramel color to avoid cancer warning label; Is it still junk food if you make it at home?

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Lifestyle

Michigan Man Sues AMC Over High Popcorn Prices

Eight bucks does seem kinda ridiculous for hot corn and fake butter

Lifestyle

Beef Straws Let You Drink Through Beef

They're designed to enhance bloody marys and are made in Nebraska

Culture

Dunkies using pork and LeBron James to woo China; three-year-old Chicken McNugget sells for $8,100

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Lifestyle

Wine Experts Are Born with Better Tongues

Which explains why those notes of "sugared grapefruit" and "dry-rubbed oak" can be hard to find

Culture

Watch the Story of Sushi

Portland's Bamboo Sushi made this video (with handcrafted miniatures!) to talk about how sushi might someday be sustainable

Culture

What's inside tap water; a look at the life of a bike deliveryman

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Lifestyle

29 Percent of People Socially Network While They Eat

And almost half of all Millennials tweet and Facebook at mealtime

Culture

Is pickiness an eating disorder?; the other way to use Angostura bitters

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Cooking

Kiwis, On a Stick, Coated in Chocolate

This week, Kookery is all about simplicity

Culture

Guerilla grafters try to modify ornamental trees to bear edible fruit; Szechuan peppercorns rise in popularity

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