Recipes Bye, Bye, Birdie: 22 Grilled Chicken Recipes to Devour This Memorial DaySerious Eats - Rabi AbonourNo more sad chicken on the Memorial Day grill! No more! If I show up at a barbecue and don't trust the chef, I steer clear of any chicken I see—more often than not it's going to be mediocre. But grilled
Special Sauce: Joe Yonan on Charting Your Own PathSerious Eats - Ed LevineJoe Yonan, the food editor at the Washington Post, speaks to Ed Levine about his early career and becoming a food journalist. In part two of my far-ranging interview with Washington Post food editor Joe
Meat How to Carve a Rack of Lamb (Without Butchering It)Serious Eats - Daniel GritzerAn improperly carved rack of lamb will leave some portions with too much meat and others with not enough. Here's how to make sure you divide and conquer evenly. Carving a rack of lamb—whether pan-roasted
Cumin Cumin Nature: All About the Spice That Goes With (Nearly) EverythingSerious Eats - The Serious Eats TeamEverything you need to know about buying, storing, and using cumin, one of the most versatile spices in the world. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article by Max Falkowitz ran in 2010. It has
Recipes Steaks, Brisket, Kebabs, and More: 18 Grilled Beef Recipes for Memorial DaySerious Eats - Rabi AbonourBurgers are about as fancy as I get at most cookouts, but if I'm really celebrating I'll ditch the ground beef and break out the steak—it's hard to look at an open flame and not imagine a perfectly charred
Recipes Sides Can Be Stars, Too: 18 Grilled Vegetable Recipes for Memorial DaySerious Eats - Rabi AbonourEvery cookout needs some delicious grilled vegetables. Here are 18 ways to make yours on Memorial Day. Burgers, steaks, and chicken are all well and good, but it's probably not a great idea to just serve
Skin Feed a Crowd With This Thai-Inspired Roast Pork Shoulder FeastSerious Eats - Sasha MarxThis crowd-pleasing meal pairs rich roast pork shoulder with bright Thai flavors. The best part: you can prepare everything long before your dinner guests arrive. It's a question as old as time: How can
Kitchens The Best Pro Cooking Tools for Your Home KitchenSerious Eats - Ariel KanterDesigned for functionality, precision, and reliability, these tools are standard in commercial kitchens and will revolutionize how you cook at home. Professional cooks are hyper-organized, quick on their
Meat For Tastier Rack of Lamb, Imperfect Is BetterSerious Eats - Daniel GritzerLamb is a more forgiving meat than beef: You can cook it to a higher temperature and still get delicious results. One might even argue that lamb is better cooked a little hotter. Let's take a look. I came
Recipes 7 Pork Recipes for Your Memorial Day CookoutSerious Eats - The Serious Eats TeamUse the grill to coax the most flavor out of your pork this Memorial Day weekend. For a lot of us, Memorial Day officially kicks off grilling season. We'll make burgers, hot dogs, maybe a couple of steaks,
Diversity What Does Food Media Smell Like?: Diversity and the Beard AwardsSerious Eats - Sho SpaethEditor's Note: This is an opinion piece. Views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Serious Eats staff. The 2019 James Beard Foundation Media Awards ceremony and took
List-Worthy 25 Desserts for Your Memorial Day CookoutSerious Eats - Rabi AbonourSave some room at your Memorial Day cookout for these 25 desserts. It's true that with all the many Memorial Day grilling recipes we've shared recently, you might not end up with much room in your stomach
Cake These Cake Stands Won't Let You DownSerious Eats - Ariel KanterThese cake stands are so much more than just a pretty base—they're also sturdy and balanced enough to ensure your precious creation won't tip over. A few weeks ago, I was in charge of making the dessert
Margarine Special Sauce: Food Editor Joe Yonan on Finding the Color of His ParachuteSerious Eats - Ed LevineJoe Yonan, the Food Editor at The Washington Post, speaks to Ed Levine about his early career and becoming a food journalist. [Joe Yonan photograph: Lottie Hedley. Chicken-fried steak photograph: Joshua
Toasted-Rice Powder Adds Nutty Depth to Classic Thai and Lao DishesSerious Eats - Sasha MarxToasted-rice powder is a crucial component in Northern Thai and Lao dishes, like larb. Making it yourself couldn't be simpler. In northern Thailand and Laos, sticky rice reigns supreme. It can be found
Cookies These Jammy Fruit Bars Are Basically Cookies for BreakfastSerious Eats - Stella ParksA quick and easy bar cookie made with brown sugar, rolled oats, and your favorite fresh fruit or jam. This simple recipe even comes together by hand, so there's no need to get your mixer dirty. While Iceland
Burgers 19 Grilled Burger Recipes for Memorial DaySerious Eats - Rabi AbonourFrom juicy home-ground cheeseburgers to black bean burgers that even omnivores can appreciate, we've got a burger recipe for every taste this Memorial Day. Walk into any Memorial Day cookout, and you're
Tequila 21 Make-Ahead Pitcher Cocktail Recipes for Memorial DaySerious Eats - Rabi AbonourThese big-batch, make-ahead cocktail recipes will make your Memorial Day cookout a breeze. Memorial Day is coming up, and that means that cookout season is officially starting. Arguably the most important
Pizza Read Kenji's Foreword to Serious Eater, Available for Preorder NowSerious Eats - Niki Achitoff-GrayEd Levine's new memoir, Serious Eater, tells the unvarnished, riveting story of Serious Eats over the years. Now it's available for preorder. I started at Serious Eats back in 2012 as an intern, brand-new
Memorial Day Weekend Get 40% Off D'Artagnan Meats, Today OnlySerious Eats - The Serious Eats Commerce TeamShop now before the sale ends at 9 p.m. Eastern. It's been quite a while since D'Artagnan, one of our favorite purveyors of specialty meats and other products, blessed us with a 40%-off flash sale. Some
Cake For Your Next Baking Adventure, Mix and Match Your LayersSerious Eats - Stella ParksThis Neapolitan layer cake is an example of how mixing and matching recipes (and batch sizes) can yield a completely new dessert. While the main focus of a site like Serious Eats is to share new recipes
How to Make Thai-Style Fried ShallotsSerious Eats - Sasha MarxFried shallots go from 0 to 100, real quick. Here's how to streamline the process for a perfectly crispy, crunchy garnish every time. Thai-style fried shallots were a prized commodity in one of the restaurant
Peas 9 Recipes to Make the Most of Snap Pea SeasonSerious Eats - The Serious Eats TeamNine snap pea recipes to make the most of their short (but sweet!) season. Whether you grow them in your garden on a trellis or just buy heaping bags of them at the grocery store, you know just how short—and
How to Make Thai Sticky Rice (Khao Niao)Serious Eats - Sasha MarxSteamed sticky rice is an essential component of northern Thai and Lao cuisines. Making it at home is dead simple. I'd argue that the best way to get to know a city is to eat your way across town. So I
Peas Peas and Thank You: 10 Sweet Pea RecipesSerious Eats - Rabi AbonourMake the most of the short season for fresh sweet peas. [Collage photographs: Yasmin Fahr, Daniel Gritzer, Lauren Rothman, Denise D'silva Sankhé] For most of the year, you're much better off cooking with
China Special Sauce: Jason Wang on Building a Xi'an Famous Foods EmpireSerious Eats - Ed LevineThe cofounder of Xi'an Famous Foods on expanding the company without losing its identity. [Jason Wang photograph: Courtesy of Xi'an Famous Foods. Chili crisp photograph: Vicky Wasik] In part two of my
Cake How to Scale (Most) Cake Recipes to Fit Any PanSerious Eats - Stella ParksCustomizing the number of layers in a cake, or converting a layer cake recipe into a cupcake or sheet cake recipe, may seem challenging at first, but ask the right questions and you'll have all the answers
Meat The Best Barbecue and Grilling AccessoriesSerious Eats - Clint CantwellTrying to grill or barbecue with cheap, flimsy accessories is a recipe for disaster. If you're going to spend the time to fire up a grill or smoker, you should invest in tools you can rely on. A charcoal
Cocktails How to Batch Cocktails for a CrowdSerious Eats - Maggie HoffmanBatching cocktails for a party allows you to mix a large quantity at once, chill it down, and serve it stress-free. Here's what you need to know to do it right. It’s an oh, sh*t moment for me. I’ve got
"You're All Monsters": Our Unpopular Very Correct Food OpinionsSerious Eats - The Serious Eats TeamFood provokes passion, as anyone who has recently read the comments on a food website can tell you (ahem). We'll admit to occasionally marveling over the range, and intensity, of opinions expressed by
