Bon Appétit

The complete menu for the Food Lover's Cleanse day 5.

The ingredients, products, and people redefining what healthy looks like in 2016.

The complete menu for Day 4 of the Food Lover's Cleanse 2016.

The complete menu for Day 3 of the Food Lover's Cleanse 2016.

The complete menu for Day 2 of the Food Lover's Cleanse 2016.

What's the best thing you ate this year? A couple of editors try to answer this most dreaded of questions in a single podcast episode. Plus, we take a trip down to the Test Kitchen to talk all things fermentation, and executive editor Christine Muhlke gives us a preview of the food trends everyone will fall for in 2016.

The 2016 Food Lover's Cleanse includes simple do-ahead work—a good strategy anytime. Here are several recipes you'll be using throughout the cleanse.

All the recipes you need for the Food Lover's Cleanse 2016, in one convenient location.

Anyone with a television spent the '90s enthralled by the larger-than-life essence of chef Emeril Lagasse. On today's episode, we sit down with him to talk cooking for Julia Child (yes, he was nervous) and who he'd rather binge-watch: Ina Garten or Guy Fieri.

Assistant production manager Alex Delany just wants to nerd out about Star Wars over a good beer.

'Tis the season to stuff your face—specifically, to stuff your face with all those cookies, pies, and cakes. Food director Carla Lalli Music and senior associate food editor Claire Saffitz break down everything you need to conquer your holiday baking plans.

Senior editor Julia Kramer loves her Chicago-style hot dogs and couldn't live without her kitchen step-stool.

Chef Magnus Nilsson runs the kitchen at the Michelin-starred Fäviken, one of the world's most isolated restaurants, in Järpen, Sweden. Tickets to Nilsson's dinners sell out constantly, but now anyone can experience the pleasures of Nordic cooking, thanks to his 768-page new book, "The Nordic Cookbook." He joins deputy editor Andrew Knowlton to talk about how Nordic food got its street cred.

Designer Alex Tatusian is convinced the best toast is made on the stove.

Comedian Marc Maron has interviewed everyone from Keith Richards to President Barack Obama on his hugely popular podcast, "WTF." Today, he joins us in our own podcast studio—this time, in the guest seat—and we find out the man can cook.

Learn every basic cooking technique in the book with these super-simple how-to videos from the BA test kitchen.

Celebrated cookbook author and TV personality Nigella Lawson joins us in the podcast studio today to talk about her tenth(!) cookbook, Simply Nigella.