Brussels sprouts with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. The pair has become a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches, and food TV. Given the recent spike in all things bacon, I suppose this was inevitable. But the pairing has gotten popular enough to necessitate...
I’ve been on quite an adventure this week thanks to a column of mine that was first posted on the Atlantic website on January 9, 2012. The column contained many unfortunate errors, from typos to grievous, many of which were pointed out online. Since...
When I met Debrilla Ratchford, she was selling sprouts at a farmers market in the parking lot of Albuquerque’s University Hospital. A former flight attendant, Ratchford holds the first patent on rolling airport luggage. Few could deny that patent #4,094,391 has made their lives...
It was nearly dark on the last day of my hunt, and I had just shot two does, a mom and her fawn. Mom heard the first gunshot but...
Every December, the Hunter PR firm announces the results of a nationwide survey for the top 10 food news stories of the year. The list says as much...
A proper bone stock does not contain fat. This may surprise those who would just as soon make stock from rotisserie chicken carcass tossed into a pot of hot...
Parsnips are hardly a secret. Unlike celeriac or rutabaga, most have at least heard of parsnip, even if they can’t remember what it looks like. The fragrant taproot that...
When several packages of viscous fluid showed up on the luggage scanner, security agents at Charles de Gaulle Airport asked me to explain some items in my checked bags....
The urge to feast during wintertime is in our DNA. Long before your office holiday shindig was called a Christmas party, people were getting merry during the cold, dark...
On October 21, Southern Nevada Health District inspector Mary Oakes crashed a dinner event at Quail Hollow Farms, in Overton, Nev. When Oakes arrived, a rented catering truck was...
Winter squash–along with turkey, eggnog, and perhaps your crazy aunt Bertha–has a place at most holiday tables. But unlike the others, there is a seasonal reason for the inclusion...
The irony of corn smut is almost as delicious as the flavor. It’s a multi-billion-dollar agricultural pest that’s more valuable than the crop it destroysÂ. But if you’re a...
From time to time I like to cook my lady friend a nice meal and tell her “I’m gonna fatten you up for the slaughter.” But since I began...
In recent years, several polls have shown that about 90 percent of Americans support the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified organisms. That’s about as close to a...
Hunting cultures, ancient and modern alike, are full of references to the heart being the first part of an animal to be consumed. To this day many young hunters...