The century egg, called pidan in Mandarin, is a ‘confusing’ ingredient in Chinese cuisine – here’s how they are made, why they smell like they do, and the unexpected places to find them.
You can thank some really tasty mold for giving you this tasty cheese. That, and a process called needling, help to give blue cheese its signature color.
Traditional Scandinavian food harks back to the days before refrigeration when drastic measures were required to keep feeding people through the long winters in agricultural communities.
Our Riedel crystal ball is not always so clear, however. After seeing Burgundy winemaking icon
Aubert de Villaine’s star turn in
L’Âme du Vin (The Soul of Wine), we guessed that de Villaine would take Hollywood by storm. Instead, we learned that an upcoming TV series
Noah Wylie would tell the true-life tale of vine sabotage and high-stakes ransom perpetrated against de Villaine’s Domaine de la Romanée-Conti estate. The rest of our predictions were far farther off the mark, something to keep in mind as you’re delighted and amazed by what 2021 almost definitely has in store for us … but there’s only one way to know for sure: Sign up for our Unfiltered email newsletter! It’s free!