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When a young woman named Jill left New York in 1979 and moved to Hollywood, she didn't plan on meeting a husband or having kids or becoming a central player in the cocktail revival. Thirty years later, Jill DeGroff, a co-founder of the Museum of the American Cocktail (with her husband, the legendary mixologist/author Dale DeGroff), has published a ...

Eater noticed that Epicurious was among the sites featured in a new compilation of best food writing. We are pleased to confirm that Raphael Kadushin's post about ''The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie I've Ever Had'' appears in the Best Food Writing 2009 (Da Capo Books). Other notable contributors to the book include: Calvin Trillin in The New Yorker ...

Pundits have been declaring that Spain is the new France for years. That modern chefs look to Spanish cuisine for culinary innovation. I wanted to taste some of this revolution so I packed up my bags and flew to Barcelona in late October. I knew my trek was limited: I had neither the time nor the money to go Madrid, Valencia, or Basque country; El ...

Last month, Epicurious hosted its first Epicurious Entertains NYC event. The 5-day food extravaganza included dinners prepared by Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, Paul Liebrandt, and Marco Canora, plus the Ultimate NYC Lunch Break, a day of football and barbecue (from Chef Zak Pelaccio's Fatty 'Cue), and cooking demonstrations from some of our ...

The Atlantic Food Channel links to a Periodic Table of Dessert (above). This reminded me of several other food-focused periodic tables. Behold, a mini-roundup: Periodic Table of Condiments Periodic Table of Cupcakes Periodic Table of Candy Periodic Table of Beer Styles Periodic Table of Storing Produce Amazon carries a bunch of periodic table ...

Everyone wants to know what the next big thing will be in gadgetland. Could it be a tablet? A rival to the Kindle? A new hybrid device that borrows from cell phones or the iTouch? And how will it enhance my cooking, gosh darn it? The savvy shoppers at Engadget give us a peek at a new device called the Quoq designed for home cooks. Pros: Resembles ...

The debate continues: Is eating meat morally suspect? Here at Epicurious, we're not taking an official stand, but I felt it my duty to share the latest musings on the topic. Specifically, there's a new wave of vegetarian flag-waving thanks to the imminent publication of Jonathan Safran Foer's latest book, Eating Animals. (Amazon link to Eating ...

I leave for Spain today: the culinary capital of the world. Foodie paradise. Home of tapas. Specifically, I'll be in Barcelona (no time for Rioja, sadly). To prepare for the trip, I studied the language using Rosetta Stone and am happy to report that food is a recurring theme. Technically, I should know a lot of Spanish. I was raised on the Upper ...

The do-gooders at City Harvest are used to dealing with big numbers: They collect more than 20 million pounds of excess food from restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. And then they deliver the food to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City helping more than 260,000 hungry New Yorkers. On ...

I read about two new developments in the world of canned beverages this morning. And, upon further investigation, I discovered that there's a whole world of exciting can news. Coke unveiled its new smaller-sized, 90-calorie cans (story via Fit Sugar). Slate calls them the new light cigarettes. The hope is that they will help curb obesity. Corona ...