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In a meta art-imitates-life-imitates-art moment, a member of the Epicurious community, Blfrantz, wrote on our Kitchen Counsel forum that he has taken up this culinary challenge: To cook all the recipes from our award-winning series Around the World in 80 Dishes (it's up for yet another Emmy!). He's been making one recipe a week and is up to Pizza ...

We are thrilled to announce that today Epicurious won a coveted National Magazine Award for Digital Media from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Our award was in the Mobile Media category and we won it for our Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List iPhone app, which is nearing the 2 million-download mark. Congrats to the extremely talented and ...

Diners have found the image of Jesus in a potato chip, a latte, on a tortilla, and now on the lid of a jar of Marmite. ''People might think I'm nuts,'' said Marmite lover and Wales resident Claire Allen, ''but I like to think it's Jesus looking out for us,'' a notion that hasn't stopped her kids from eating the holy yeast extract out of the jar. I ...

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is India's Martha Stewart times a hundred. His 17-year-old ''Khana Khazana'' cooking show is the longest running television show in Asia, with 500 million viewers watching in 120 countries. He has authored dozens of cookbooks, selling more than 10 million copies, and has a line of food and restaurants around the world. Is there ...

It has long been thought that eating meat helped increase our ancient ancestor's brain size, but perhaps it was the act of cooking that made us Einsteins: As the BBC reports, paleoanthropologist Peter Wheeler of Liverpool's John Moores University theorizes that once homo erectus discovered cooking nearly two million years ago, and thereby gained ...

The lowly rhubarb is finally getting its 15 minutes of fame. Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb grown in the Rhubarb Triangle (no, this is not a Monty Python bit) has been added to the European Commission's Protected Food Name list along with such stalwarts as Champagne, Feta Cheese, and Parma Ham. This affords the 12 farms growing the stalk by candlelight, ...

We're planning this year's Epicurious Entertains NYC event. For each of five nights last fall, 125 lucky diners got tickets to an intimate dinner cooked and hosted by a celebrity chef. I asked my favorites to do the honors: Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, Paul Liebrandt, Marco Canora, and Zak Pelaccio. But, as my kids always remind me, it's not all ...

The Huffington Post's ''The Week of Eating In'' blog posted an intriguing topic: Foods that are perceived to be hard to make. Their top five choices in order of difficulty (according to users) were poached eggs, polenta, and bechamel sauce followed by risotto and bread. I was surprised as the first three dishes require only a bit of finesse, the ...

This weekend I was teaching my kids how to cook pasta and one of them poured cold water into the colander of hot noodles. The reason? He heard cold water removes excess starch. But doing so actually turns the noodles cold and slippery and less likely to bind with the sauce. Another cooking myth is adding oil to the water before cooking pasta to ...

As most Olympic games' viewers now know, U.S. ski team member Lindsey Vonn has been wrapping her bruised shin with the Austrian creamy cheese topfen (pictured) in the hopes of reducing inflammation. As a cheese fan, I must admit that I've used cheese for many slightly unexpected ways (as a fragrant centerpiece, in a first-grade art project) but ...