Food & Wine: Articles

• Gluten-Free Pasta Taste Test
  Gluten-Free Pastas Corn Pasta Brown Rice Pasta Quinoa Pasta Mixed Starch Pasta Gluten-Free Pasta: Corn-Based Rustichella’s Corn Fusilli. Photo courtesy of Rustichella. *Overall Pick: Rustichella’s Corn Fusilli “Nice and firm. Would be good with a hearty sauce.” “This is my favorite.” “Good corn flavor. Best of the lot.” “I’d use it.” Sam Mill’s Corn P...
• Insider Portland Travel Guide: Best New Chef Jenn Louis Downs Cappuccinos, Likes BBQ for Brunch
  In this Article Restaurant Picks Favorite Hotel Shopping Tip Things To Do Louis’s Best Dishes Restaurants Ristretto Roasters Courtesy of Ristretto Roasters Go-to Coffee: Ristretto Roasters “I love their cappuccinos; they pull everything double ristretto [which means twice the coffee grinds for a single shot] and use great local milk. They’re not large, huge cups of coffee. I was just in Ital...
• The Best Peach Cobbler Recipes
  Top Peach Cobbler Recipes Buttermilk-Biscuit Peach Cobbler (left) Unlike most people who make cobblers, Bobby Flay opts to bake the biscuits separately from the fruit so the undersides cook fully; then, just before serving, he sets the biscuits on the fruit and bakes them for a few more minutes, so they can soak up some of the juices without getting soggy. Peach-Lavender Cobbler Nicole Krasinski loves the combination of peaches and lavender because the dried blossoms ...
• The Best Peach Pie Recipes
  Top Peach Pie Recipes Vanilla-Ginger Peach Pie Choose ripe yellow peaches rather than white ones for pie filling; they are juicier and sweet-tart. Cut them into thick wedges, which add texture to the filling and are less likely to lose their shape. Georgia Peach Pie This perfectly classic peach pie has an ultra flaky crust and simple filling. It’s delicious with a topping of bourbon whipped cream. Roasted Peach Pies with Cream (photo) “If I could p...
• Taste Test: Chips and Salsa
  White Corn Tortilla Chips Trader Joe’s Restaurant-Style White Corn Tortilla Chips Photo courtesy of Trader Joe’s. Top Pick: Trader Joe’s Restaurant-Style White Corn Tortilla Chips, $1.79/ 8.5oz “Great crunch.” “I’d buy these!” “Nice corn flavor.” “These are my new favorite tortilla chip—perfect thickness and crunch.” Xochitl Totopos de Maiz, $5.99/16 oz “Love these. So thin, taste homemade an...
• FYI, Your Kitchen Is Probably Dirtier than a Toilet Seat
  “In most cases, it’s safer to make a salad on a toilet seat than it is to make one on a cutting board,” says Dr. Charles Gerba (a.k.a. Dr. Germ), a microbiologist and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.“People disinfect their toilet seats all the time, but they don’t realize that they really need to pay attention in the kitchen too.” Since 1973, he’s been studying the hidden bacteria lurking in American homes, and his findings ...
• Editor’s Letter
  Could grilling be the answer to everything? After putting together this issue, I’m convinced that if it can’t solve every problem, it sure can come close. Why do I say this? In Detroit, a city devastated by urban blight, a terrific little barbecue joint called Slows is using the power of great burgers, chicken and ribs to revitalize its Corktown neighborhood. In “Soul Food for a Hungry City,” we catch up with the visionary behind Slows, meet the urban pioneer...
• Anna Kendrick
  Anna Kendrick’s High-Stakes Baking “I’ve always loved baking—it feels like the stakes are high. Cooking isn’t precise enough for me; I’m a little OCD, and I like the way baking makes my brain feel. I take on projects that are more hands-on, like crème brûlée, although I burned myself pretty badly the first time I used a blowtorch. My biggest baking disaster was profiteroles. I couldn’t get the pastry to puff up without fa...
• What Vintage is that Six-Pack?
  In this Article Where to Find Aged Beers In the back of my closet is a 36-bottle wine refrigerator the size of R2-D2. Everyone knows that the wines in this fridge are off-limits, and woe is he who pilfers from my cache. That’s because these wines aren’t for drinking—at least not yet. I bought these bottles of Barolo, Hermitage and Bordeaux because they have the potential to turn from great to mind-blowing after a few de...
• Alaska Travel: Into the Mild
  In This Article: Alaska Travel Black Book People are always surprised to hear that I’ve been to Alaska five times. It is a place that seems so vast, so wild, so far. People want to make the trip once, and then cross it off their bucket list. But for an outdoorsman like me, there’s no better place to have an adventure: I’ve skied peaks in the Tordrillo Mountains reachable only by helicopter, and I’ve take...
• In Search of Good Cheap Wine
  In This Article: Ray’s Best Cheap Wine Finds When I stepped through the doors of the Super Buy-Rite Wines & Liquors in Jersey City, New Jersey, the difficulty of my mission really hit me. Standing there, gazing out over the store’s 30,000 square feet of bottle-laden shelves, I thought to myself, This is ridiculous. How on earth is anyone supposed to figure out which bottle to buy here? Of course, people shopping for...
• Smoked Cocktails
  In this Article Frank Bruni on Smoky Drinks Smoky Flavor Sources Smoky Glassware Frank Bruni explores the smoked cocktails trend. Photo © Michael Turek. Scorch and Soda Frank Bruni falls for the cocktail world’s new trend: smoky drinks. It began with an impulse to rhyme. The mixologist Eben Freeman had been watching chefs in New York City smoke a whole lot more than meat&mdash...
• How to Make Paella
  In This Article: Step-by-Step Guide to Grilled Paella “A lot of Americans have never experienced traditional paella,” says Seamus Mullen, chef-owner of New York City’s Tertulia and an expert in Spanish cooking. “Here in the States, you often get something that’s more like jambalaya—a mountain of rice loaded with seafood.” True paella, he says, starts with a thin layer of rice slowly infused...
• Andrew Zimmern's Recipes: April 2012
  May 2012 | April 2012 | March 2012 | February 2012 | January 2012 | December 2011 | November 2011 | October 2011 April 30, 2012 Shrimp Étouffée © Stephanie Meyer On the road one day in New Orleans, I spent some time in the Crescent City Farmers Market and got a lesson in étouffée-making from the doyenne of Louisiana home cooking, Poppy Tooker. Étouffée is a riff on the old French verb &ld...
• F&W's Camping Recipes
  In This Article: Campfire Cooking Accessories I did not grow up camping: My parents preferred electricity and indoor plumbing. My little cabin in the woods has neither, but over the years, my husband and I have added a few amenities, including a gas grill for quick meals after a day of hiking and a fire pit for leisurely cooking and communal gatherings. I use either the grill or the fire pit for the recipes here, though a stovetop would work, too. Most of the in...
• Detroit Restaurants: Soul Food for a Hungry City
  In This Article: Tour the Block Motor City Picks Even without floors or glass in the windows, there is something quietly captivating about Detroit’s Michigan Central Station. Opened in 1913, it is a grand, imposing structure, with heroic Corinthian columns created by the architects behind New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. But like so many buildings in Detroit, it has been abandoned. When Amtrak moved out...
• A Chef's Dinner Party Recipes
  In this Article Best Party Wines Kitchit’s Ian Ferguson enjoys chef Jeff Banker’s dinner party recipes. Photo © Peden-Munk. Nowadays, it has become increasingly possible to spend time at home with your favorite chefs—by watching them on TV, for instance, or using their branded cookware. But through a startup called Kitchit.com, restaurant fanatics can now bring actual chefs into their home kitchens. No kidnapping required...
• Best BBQ: Pit Masters and Grill Geniuses
  In this Article Best BBQ in the West Best BBQ in the Midwest Best BBQ in the East Best BBQ in the South & Texas Wine Pairings for BBQ Best BBQ in the West B Side BBQ’s Phil Surkis and Tanya Holland. Photo © Lisa Keating. B Side BBQ; Oakland, CA Bobby Flay protégé Tanya Holland brought quality food to gritty West Oakland when she opened Brown Sugar...
• Supercharged Vegetarian Grilling Recipes
  “I respect all types of food,” says Alyssa Gorelick, chef at the new vegetarian restaurant Fern in Charlotte, North Carolina. By that, she means everything from doughnut holes (hers are vegan) to beer (the kind at Fern is gluten-free). She even has a healthy respect for meat—she spent most of her career cooking it at other restaurants—which helps her create vegetarian dishes for the grill with almost-meaty flavors. For example, she cooks onions, tomatoes and ...
• Best Grills at Every Price
  Weber One-Touch Silver Weber has been making kettle grills for 60 years. Its charcoal-burning models are versatile, inexpensive and easy to use. $80; weber.com. Courtesy of Weber Lodge Logic Sportsman This portable, cast-iron hibachi-style grill is perfect for picnics or tailgating. $140; lodgemfg.com. Courtesy of Lodge Cast Iron Char-Broil TRU-Infrared Precise individual burner control...