Food

Rethinking Backpack Cuisine

by Eve Chenu Year after year, my husband Tobin and I leave our home in central Austin to enjoy a peculiar form of slow-motion extreme sport: walking in the wilderness with all we need to survive ...

Food Thrift Redux

By Kristi Willis Americans waste a staggering amount of food. From crops left behind after harvest to discarded leftovers, 40 percent of food in the U.S. is never eaten—wasting precious energy ...

Scrap Cuisine

By Elif SelviliIllustration by Bambi Edlund When we think back to childhood, some of our favorite dishes—now often re-created with fanciful makeovers and served in trendy restaurants as ...

By Zack NorthcuttPhotography by Jenna Noel Creating basic condiments is an easy way to cater to your own taste and impart flavors in an often-overlooked area. Making them is easy, and once you get a ...

Savory Gluten Free Pies

By Kate PaynePhotography by Jo Ann Santangelo Because I became a pie maker years after going gluten-free, I had no prior experience making pies with regular flour; but a few crusts into my pie ...

Pickled Pumpkin

by Kate Payne I’m a sucker for fall—the season signaling a renewed love of pies, an influx of cinnamon-laden treats, the much-anticipated farewell to summer’s endless heat and, of ...

Homemade Root Beer

By Kate PaynePhotography by Jo Ann Santangelo I grew up in the Southwest, and as much as I thought I wasn’t a creature of my surroundings, having lived in the suburbs of Phoenix, I still find ...

How to Make Custard

By Laura SawickiPhotography by Carole Topalian I’m a professional pastry chef, so I know the difference between a crème brûlée, crème caramel and crème ...

Culture Club

By Elif Selvili Photography by Whitney Arostegui What happens when good-natured bacteria meets warm milk? Yogurt! Or yoghurt, yoghourt, yogourt or yogurt (based on the archaic Turkish verb ...

On a Roll

By Kate Payne Photography by Jo ann Santangelo For many years, my income map has included caring for children—from the just-months-old to the too-cool-for-school teenager. Last year, when ...