Featured in Issue 185
Sep 30, 2016
The Bread Lover’s Guide to Raising Your Own Sourdough Starter
Essential info for filling your kitchen with the bubbly, sour-smelling, long-lasting basic building blocks of better dough
Sep 29, 2016
Valerie Gordon, Dessert Detective
How an investigative baker resurrects the obscure but beloved desserts the rest of us have forgotten
Sep 29, 2016
Inside Earth’s Last Line of Defense to Preserve Biodiversity
A tasting of ultra-rare tomatoes at the Svalbard global seed vault
Sep 28, 2016
How to Engineer the World’s Greatest Pigs in a Blanket
The cocktail party standard is about to get a major Franco-American upgrade
Sep 27, 2016
How a Short Child and a Tall Milk Shake Led to the Invention of the Bendy Straw
Patent #2,094,268: Joseph B. Friedman's “Personalized Drinking Tube”—now flexible!
Sep 27, 2016
How a Peruvian Farmer is Growing 180 Kinds of Potatoes
High in the Andes, Yieber Cueva tends to Quechua tradition through crops so valued they're practically sacred