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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idAUo_fyHW4 You need never endeavor to make any of the recipes world renowned chef Jacques Pépin produced on camera in his 2008 series More Fast Food My Way. The helpful hints he tosses off during each half hour episode more than justify a viewing. The menu for the episode titled “The Egg First!,” above, includes Red Pepper Dip, Asparagus Fans […] Watch 26 Free Episodes of Jacques Pépin’s TV...

Everything old is new again and Tuscany’s buchette del vino—wine windows—are definitely rolling with the times. As Lisa Harvey earlier reported in Atlas Obscura, buchette del vino became a thing in 1559, shortly after Cosimo I de’ Medici decreed that Florence-dwelling vineyard owners could bypass taverns and wine merchants to sell their product directly to the public. Wealthy wine […] The Wine Windows of Renaissance Florence Dispense Wine...

Those of us who’ve dedicated a portion of our isolation to the art of sourdough have not suffered for a lack of information on how that particular sausage should get made. The Internet harbors hundreds, nay, thousands of complicated, contrary, often contradictory, extremely firm opinions on the subject. You can lose hours…days…weeks, agonizing over which method to […] Cambridge University Professor Cooks 4000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient...

Ah, Florida… The Sunshine State. Tourists began flocking to it in earnest once the railroads expanded in the late 19th century, drawn by visions of sunset beaches, graceful palms, and plump citrus fruit in a warm weather setting. The fantasy gathered steam in the 1920s when citrus growers began affixing colorful labels to the fruit […] A Collection of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels Offers...