“Yeah, You can put weed in that.”
That's what my friend A, who's a cannabis writer, says when I bring up literally any food. I used to think she was a stoner, but now I realize she's just right.
We are putting weed in everything—but not the way we did in college when we lost an entire weekend to a single pot brownie. Cannabis, whether it's CBD or the kind that gets you high, has become as ubiquitous in the food world as avocado toast, and it's got a health halo to match.
We're sipping it in seltzer, infusing it in olive oil, and (lightly) dosing our desserts—and we're doing it for a host of reasons beyond, but, yeah, also including, getting stoned. It's become a social thing, a sleep thing, and even, for some, a work thing.
It's also a confusing thing. There's almost too much information out there about cooking with and consuming weed. And the bud needs a lot of help to taste, uh, edible. On top of that, the cannabis industry is fraught with all kinds of moral and ethical problems. This guide, which we put together along with our friends at Broccoli, is meant to ease you into the world of cannabis and food with everything you need to get started: simple advice (finally, a super-straightforward way to infuse butter), hyper-specific recommendations (the CBD salt we're sprinkling on everything), truly delicious recipes (duh!), and some Ethics 101 to help you buy weed you can feel good about...while it makes you feel good too.
So fix yourself a CBD-infused smoothie, tell Alexa to put on our custom cannabis playlist, and settle in. It's a weird new weed world, but it should, at the very least, be delicious. — Amanda Shapiro, Healthyish editor
This package is a collaboration with our friends at Broccoli: A Magazine for Cannabis Lovers. Get their spring issue now!
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski1/13A Weed Butter Recipe You Can Totally Master
You don’t have to be a trained chef or cannabis connoisseur to make legit weed butter. You just need a little patience and a kitchen scale. Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey shows us the ropes.
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski2/13Recipe: Burnt Carrots with CBD Brown Butter
Not about infusing your own butter? Use a CBD or THC tincture (we like Lily for CBD) to instantly infuse the brown butter in this recipe.
Photo by Sean Amador4/135 Chefs Who Are Breaking Stereotypes About “Weed Food ”
The culinary weed industry is having a delicious revolution. Meet the women leading the charge.
Photo by Alex Lau5/13We Love It: Farbod Ceramics Eggplant Pipe
Here’s one more way to get your daily serving of vegetables: Farbod Ceramics’ Eggplant Pipe, which is so cute you’ll want to pack it for a picnic or tuck into your kitchen fruit bowl. Hand-sculpted from Dutch Royal porcelain at a zero-emission studio in Amsterdam, the ergonomic piece is painted with an easy-to-clean, food safe glaze plus a stem dipped in 24K gold. Farbod also crafts sweet-enough-to-eat pipes in the shape of baby bananas and mini avocados. It’s a whole new way to eat your greens. —Ellen Freeman
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski6/13Recipe: CBD Mango Smoothie
Photo by Alex Lau8/13We Love It: Alto Essentials CBD Salt
Jacobsen Salt Co’s flaky finishing salt has a cult following. The hand-harvested shards are delicately crunchy and bright—and now, thanks to NY culinary cannabis brand Alto Essentials, infused with cannabinoids too. Alto’s CBD salt comes in 5 milligram servings, perfect for sprinkling on top of chocolate chip cookies, seared meats, or basically anything else that crosses your dinner table. Best of all, those packets make precise dosing easy and discrete. Stash a few in your pocket to season picnics or late-night french fries with a hit of salinity and crunch, plus a little extra chill. — Aliza Abarbanel
Buy it: Alto CBD Salt, $19 for a 10-pack.
10/13We Love It: Potli Hemp Infused Cold-Pressed EVOO
If your recipe starts with Potli olive oil, any food can be an edible. This hemp-infused cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil is a new pantry staple for home cooks who aren’t into sugary edibles or just want to cook weed treats without dairy. Harvested from Tuscan olives grown in Carmel Valley, California, each earthy tablespoon is dosed with 15 mg of non-psychoactive CBD—ideal for swirling into hummus as an afternoon pick-me-up, drizzling on a bowl of popcorn for a relaxing midnight snack, or making a hangover-relieving brunch spread. —Ellen Freeman
Buy it: Potli Hemp Olive Oil, $66.
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski11/13Recipe: CBD Sesame Semifreddo
12/134 Classic Cannabis Cookbooks We Can’t Believe Exist
Looking for some more cannabis-cooking inspiration? These vintage cookbooks are at least four decades ahead of you. Read the article.
13/13We Love It: DRAM Adaptogenic CBD Sparkling Water
Anyone living that seltzer life already understands the lift you get from a bit of the bubbly, but DRAM added CBD, adaptogenic herbs, and the dreamiest label design to make it even more of a mood. Each can contains 20mg of broad spectrum Colorado-grown CBD and comes in two peppy flavors: Gingergrass and Lemongrass. DRAM is also spiked with adaptogenic plants believed to help the body adapt to environmental stress, like chaga mushroom (said to boost the immune system), rhodiola (a root used traditionally in Scandinavian countries to treat anxiety, fatigue, and depression), and eleuthero (a.k.a. “Siberian ginseng”, believed to improve endurance).— Ellen Freeman
Buy it: DRAM Adaptogenic Sparkling Water, $16 for 4.
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