The Best Kitchen and Cooking Gift Ideas of 2025
When it comes to finding gifts for people who love to cook, I stand by a simple gift shopping mantra: Know what your giftee likes, and then expand upon (or improve) their area of interest.…
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I Avoided Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey for a Decade. This Year I Caved.
And so I combed our vast archive for a recipe. As an otherwise confident cook who has roasted many a chicken, I knew what I was looking for. I wanted a dry brine, infinitely easier…
Antoni Porowski on Cooking for a Crowd and His Favorite Host Gifts
Through the Netflix series Queer Eye, Antoni Porowski has proven that cooking means more than simply being able to whip up a meal—it can be a path to greater self-confidence and independence.For Porowski, his interest…
The lab where GM is cooking up new EV batteries to beat China
Inside General Motors’ fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are analyzing stresses on lithium-ion cells: desert heat, arctic cold, jungle humidity, enough charging and discharging for a half-dozen Frankenstein reboots.For The Verge’s…
How Halal Cooking Is Redefining American Barbecue
Most pitmasters I spoke with use briskets from Creekstone Farms, based in Kansas, where the Black Angus cows are slaughtered to halal standards. Creekstone rose to fame as the go-to source for Franklin BBQ, which…