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Extreme Frugality

It’s not easy, making cheese. And is it really cheaper than store-bought?

By W. Hodding Carter

Food

Sometimes there’s so much love all around it comes in through the air, it comes in through the hamburgers.

By Francis Lam

chefs + restaurants

As surprising as it seems, the Garden State is full of excellent, real-deal barbecue spots.

By Kelly Feeney

07.15.09

Keywords: new jersey,; eight great,; barbecue,; meat,; kelly feeney

cookbook club

We’ve found just the cookbook to cure your itch to bake with fruit piled high from your farmers market.

Diane Abrams

August 2009

Keywords: cookbook club,; rustic fruit desserts,; desserts,; cory schreiber,; julie richardson

cookbook club

Julie Richardson, co-author of Rustic Fruit Desserts, shares some simple tips for making perfect pie crust—and some of them may surprise you. (Hint: Add more water.)...

07.14.09

Keywords: cookbook club,; rustic fruit desserts,; julie richardson,; pie,; video

cookbook club

Julie Richardson, co-author of Rustic Fruit Desserts, demonstrates her method for making this quick and simple dessert

07.14.09

Keywords: cookbook club,; rustic fruit desserts,; julie richardson,; video,; cooking + technique

food + cooking

Widespread in the Northeast, late blight is a tomato and potato disease you need to know about, and fast.

Nanette Maxim

07.13.09

Keywords: gardening 101,; farm-to-table,; produce,; tomatoes,; nanette maxim

travel + culture

Never mind the high-end places; the real British food revolution is happening in far humbler establishments.

Laura Shapiro

07.13.09

Keywords: restaurants,; britain,; london,; heston blumenthal,; laura shapiro

recipes

A surprisingly potent little cocktail, and it’s not just the bubbles that will get you.

07.13.09

Keywords: cocktail of the week,; web-exclusive recipes,; cocktails,; spirits,; gin

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Videos, recipes, and dozens of invaluable tips to help you get fired up this summer.

From enduring classics to long-lost libations, our favorite cocktails from Gourmet’s third decade provide delicious windows into this country’s potable past.

Editor in chief Ruth Reichl returns to reviewing restaurants. Would you recognize her?

You’ve read W. Hodding Carter’s Extreme Frugality series; now get to know the author and his family in this video.

Slow Food USA’s Josh Viertel
Former Senator George McGovern
Cornucopia Co-Founder Mark Kastel
Brewing Professor Charles Bamforth
Jungle Effect Author Daphne Miller
World Food Programme’s John Powell
Chefs Achatz + Blumenthal
Best-Selling Author Michael Pollan