We all know spices make food taste great and that different cultures use them to make their cuisine special and authentic. You can often quickly identify the origin of a dish you are enjoying by the spices it contains; but do you know spices can be used f...
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This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. Mental Floss may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.Having your cooking essentials within reach makes dinner prep a lot easier to manage, especially during...
Many of us cook daily, or at least watch cooking shows, and most at least cook occasionally. For the most part, we tend to think we have a pretty good grasp of food safety, but there are some things you didnt realize were lurking in the background, potent...
TRAVELA Brief History of Puerto Rico’s Beloved MofongoAnd how you can make the hearty, ‘crunchy-soft’ meal Puerto Rico's unofficial national dish usually consists of fried green plantains mashed with garlic,chicharrn(deep-fried...
TRAVELA Brief History of Puerto Rico’s Beloved MofongoAnd how you can make the hearty, ‘crunchy-soft’ meal Puerto Rico's unofficial national dish usually consists of fried green plantains mashed with garlic,chicharrn(deep-fried...
SMART NEWSA Museum in Rome Narrates Italian History Through Cookbooks and KitchenwareReopening this spring, Garum explores more than 500 years of local culinary traditions The food library and museum is slated to reopen later this spring.Garum, Bibli...
PURE Indian Cooking sounds more like a statement than a name for a restaurant, however, if you’ve ever been to India you’ll know that the use of the word ‘pure’ is often a good sign. ‘Pure vegetarian’ is a common phrase used to indicate when s...
(Image credit: Francesco Paolo Desiderio)A materials scientist with a yeast allergy set out to make a yeast-free pizza dough that still rises like a classic Neapolitan pie.Now, in a new paper published March 22 in the journal Physics of Fluids, he an...
A new cookbook wants to give home cooks the essentials they need to be more confident in the kitchen. One of the authors joins us to discuss some of the book's 100 recipes and talk about some of the most common questions he gets from home cooks.Relat...
Cooking Christmas dinner can be stressful It can feel pretty daunting when youre tasked with cooking Christmas dinner this year.Its a wonderful time of the year, but its also expensive, and undeniably this year in particular, very stressful. The fest...
The mum only added one item to her soup to combat the salt (Image: @vnklove/TikTok)When it comes to adding salt to recipes, it can be hard to know just how much a “pinch” really is – and that can leave you adding too much to the pot. And while it...
A woman lovingly made a spaghetti meal but it was soon roasted by critics (Image: Getty Images)A budding chef was left red-faced after sharing a picture of a meal they had lovingly prepared - only to be told it looks like an emema. Twitter user Gabri...
(Image:Jam Press Vid/foodmadesimple)Gordon Ramsay has hit out at a chefs interesting full English breakfast concoction.The 55-year-old celebrity chef, who is famous for his blasé attitude, blasted a chef on TikTok as part of his #RamsayReacts series...
A simple trick to get perfect poached eggs every time (Image: @caughtsnackin/Tiktok) Everyone can boil them and theyre easy to fry, but poaching eggs can leave most amateur chefs stumped - but now a TikTok star has shared his secret for getting them...
Inês Meotti claims she found the dead mouse in her tomato paste A woman claims she was shocked to find a dead mouse lurking inside a tube of tomato paste that she was using to make a lasagne.Inês Meotti was preparing a tomato sauce for the Italian...
TikTok star Kristys simple cooking hack will stop water boiling over (Image:kristyehmer/Instagram)A woman has been praised for sharing a simple yet effective cooking hack that stops a pan of water from boiling over.TikTok star Kristy, @Kristyehmer, d...
Roast dinners are a British staple, and some people can get quite defensive (Image: Getty Images)A woman proudly shared a picture of the Sunday dinner that she had loving prepared - but soon found it was being roasted online as others compared it to...
The spuds are our favourite part of a roast dinner (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)Its a debate for the ages - how do you make the best roast potatoes? Many hold strong opinions on the subject, with some people claiming that only their top-secret re...
A chef and foraging enthusiast joins the show to give some tips on gathering ingredients in nature -- and how to make a meal when you bring your goodies back home.Related Links:The Forager Chef's Book of Flora: Recipes and Techniques for Edible Pla...
It was the first time she had made porridge (Image:chikitarosee/TikTok)A man has been slammed online after he mocked his girlfriends attempt at cooking. Jakia Rose was left crying inside after she discovered footage of her boyfriend criticising the b...
