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A seeded challah loaf, surrounded by the ingredients used to make it: egg yolks, flour, salt, and yeast
Posted inStory

Our Braided Bread

by Benjamin DuBow May 19, 2022January 31, 2023

In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.

Posted inFood, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

Bagels are the Best Ring-Shaped Breakfast Food and I Will Brook No Other Opinion

by michelleweber November 26, 2018October 19, 2022

I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Food, Highlight, Quotes

Bread, Disrupted

by michelleweber November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.

Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Highlight, Quotes

A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together

by Danielle Jackson May 15, 2018October 19, 2022

A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Forgetting the Madeleine

by benhuberman May 3, 2018October 19, 2022

A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Food, Nonfiction, Story

Forgetting the Madeleine

by Frances Leech May 3, 2018October 19, 2022

A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Food, Nonfiction

Forgetting the Madeleine

by Frances Leech May 3, 2018October 19, 2022

A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.

Posted inEditor's Pick

I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter

by michelleweber January 11, 2018October 19, 2022

“Batali does not specify how tightly to roll the dough. I do so too tightly because fuck everything.”

Star shaped cookies with red, white, and blue icing
Posted inCurrent Events, Food

Cookie Tasting with Trump’s Billionaire Backer

by Pam Mandel May 30, 2017October 19, 2022

Before she was a major power broker in Washington, Rebecca Mercer was a bakery owner. Politico puts her cookies to the test.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie

by Frances Leech February 26, 2015October 19, 2022

An Oxford grad learns to navigate boiling sugar, sleep deprivation, and exacting pastry chefs with whom she can barely communicate.

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