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This is not tossing. This is assembling, fashioning, architecting. With the help of chef Ignacio Mattos.

The impossible burger, not-chicken nuggets, and energy bars are all about peas now. What gives?

An underbaked mystery, a fine-dining fable, and the recipe of a famous cheesecake hiding in plain sight. We asked a Los Angeles chef for hints about the recipe he developed. He wouldn’t share. But it led us to the source—San Sebastián chef Santiago Rivera—to unlock the mystery.

Science says no. But our hearts can’t handle that.

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The toffee-like confection contains no Scotch whisky and often no butter. What gives?

When seafood is slowly fermented with salt, the result is a briny, savory blast of umami that can transform dishes and inspire lifelong love affairs.

What the Catholic church has to do with your favorite bar snack.

To become a private chef for an athlete, movie star, or billionaire tech founder, you need years of professional experience and a knack for keeping secrets.

The original machine is now in the Smithsonian.

Ethiopian coffee is one of the world’s great culinary treasures. It’s also extremely undervalued. Geoff Watts, cofounder of Intelligentsia Coffee, is on a mission to get you—and the $100 billion industry—to pay more. Much more.

And why fresh cornlettes are so hard to find.

Growing demand for cold coffee has lead to a meaningful departure from many of the aesthetics and values central to the third wave. Is this a good thing?

And does your pie need one?

"A handful of new companies are challenging the norm for instant coffee that we’ve accepted for more than a hundred years. "