Food & Entertaining

A Chef's Christmas Table

6/30/2026 · Kitchen Team

What separates a holiday table that photographs well from one that actually gets used comes down to about three decisions, made hours before anyone sits down.

Dumplings & Discipline: A Knife-Skills Weekend

7/1/2026 · Kitchen Team

We spent a weekend doing nothing but folding dumplings, on purpose. Here's what a genuinely boring, repetitive cooking task teaches that a recipe can't.

Holiday Baking: Cookies, Cakes, and Chaos

6/27/2026 · Kitchen Team

Every kitchen has one holiday baking day that goes slightly off the rails. Here's ours — cookies, a cake that nearly didn't make it, and what we'd do differently.