Giorgio Milos, master barista for Italian espresso giant illy, has spent a lot of time drinking overly strong, too bitter, and otherwise bad espresso around the U.S. His main complaint? Espresso made in restaurants, and at home, needs a better grind. Milos has quite a laundry list of complaints about how his beloved espresso is [...]

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The secret ingredient in Grandma Wendy’s cookies is ZANINESS!

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Cool stop motion Photoshop Cooking! A tutorial that shows how to make the lovely butter cookies with the new Adobe Photoshop Cook CS software. Enjoy!

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Bunchland Magazine, a digital magazine that features awesome and creative families from all over the world, received this submission for our food section, called Munchland. In this section, families send us videos of themselves cooking or talking about food. This video, entitled The Dessert of Frankenstein, came from dad Eric Woolfe, a brilliant playwright/actor who [...]

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  Years ago, chef Dave Arnold expressed a desire for a substance that had the consistency, texture, and applicability of chocolate, but wasn’t chocolate. He wanted to be able to coat food in ketchup as one coats, for example, cherries in chocolate. After some experimentation, he was successful. Here’s his recipe: 1 kg de-odorized cocoa [...]

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Duff Goldman, of Charm City Cakes and Ace of Cakes fame, teamed up with Girl Gourmet to make the Girl Gourmet Cake Bakery (buy at Amazon), a kit that lets girls (and boys) make and roll out their own fondant to decorate a mini two-tiered cake that even comes with an air-powered icing gun. And [...]

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Last night Tom Colicchio paid a visit to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to promote his ‘wichcraft cookbook and the upcoming season of Top Chef. Trying to break the mold of “chef on late night” cliché, he and Fallon did a panini quickfire challenge — Colicchio promising that if Fallon won, he’d put the panini [...]

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Colorful measuring spoons by Joseph Joseph with a dual purpose – refrigerator magnets!

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Laura and Barb, the two sisters behind the culinary blog My Sister’s Kitchen, post an excellent and detailed tutorial on homemade sourdough. It isn’t as simple as some of the other bread recipes and bread baking techniques, like my mom’s favorite easy bread, but based on the rave reviews their technique has received, I think [...]

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