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, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now.
I am not what youâd call a die-hard football fan, but I know just enough trivia to make small talk with your uncle, and I do watch the Super Bowl. Sometimes itâs because I care (Colin Kaepernickâera 49ers), and sometimes itâs for the ads (Clydesdales make me emotional)âbut always itâs for the snacks. Dips are my favorite food group, sustained grazing is my preferred method of sustenance, and blue cheesy Buffalo wings? To me, you are perfect, just like Jerry Riceâs performance in Super Bowl XXIII.
I break out in hives whenever I hear the word
disrupt applied to cooking. I donât want to hack my dinner, and I donât want to disrupt my cookware. I just want to cook tasty food like everyone else, using cookware that works. But if someone comes along with a product that is
genuinely better, well, Iâm all ears.
I hadnât heard of Hestan when their marketing team dropped by the
BA Test Kitchen a couple years ago, but I was intrigued when they presented the NanoBond skillet they had given to chef Corey Lee to use at Benu in San Francisco. The pan they showed me had gone through months of what every piece of professional cookware goes through: abuse. From getting slammed around on cooktops to the rigors of washing night after night, this little skillet had stories to tell. Yet it had few outward signs of anything more than a trip to New York (maybe even first class, judging from the lack of dents). It was clear that this pan was
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January 16, 2021 1:01 PM Emily Oliver
PULLMAN, Wash. The cheese that’s put Washington State University on everyone’s radar is now getting some much deserved attention from a popular food magazine.
The Highly Recommend section of Bon Appétit Magazine is dedicated to the best of the best food products, selected by critics in the food industry themselves. Knowing this, those of you who have tasted Cougar Gold Cheese probably aren’t surprised it made the cut.
“It was one of the best cheddars I’d ever had,” said writer Jessica Kelly. “Both shocked and pleased, I am 100% a card-carrying member of the Cougar cult now. And I think you should be, too.”
This is
, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now.
There are a lot of things that come in a can. You can get a loaf of bread, a cheeseburger, a âwhole chickenâ (if you can count it as such, because it comes out all butchered and congealed), rattlesnake, and more. There was even a company called GAME that created
Christmas Tinner, which is a nine-course holiday meal in a can. Needless to say, that did not take off. One item I can safely say I never thought Iâd find is canned cheddar cheese, but here we are. I found a canned cheddar cheese. Itâs called Cougar Gold Cheddar Cheese. And itâs absolutely incredible.Â
These Cakes Are So Luxe, No One Will Believe They Came From a Box MacKenzie Chung Fegan
, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now.
Let’s not beat around the bush: This is a $25 box cake mix. That’s $23.71 more than a Betty Crocker SuperMoist vanilla cake mix at Target, and I am deeply sorry for introducing the word
SuperMoist into your day. So, if their competition is another box cake mix, the Caker’s boxed kits are shockingly expensive. But if you accept that they have more in common with a $50 cake from a high-end bakery than they do with an industrially produced mix that contains “propylene glycol mono and diesters of fatty acids,” then they’re actually a pretty great deal.