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This Week In Food News...because a LOT happened

It Is Week Four of Summer Vacation and I Have Run Out of Ideas

It's Too Hot to Cook and I Will Not Be Taking Questions

A Love Letter To Cooking for One (or two!)

How to Host The Best Summer Picnic, BBQ, or Pool Party...Without Having a Meltdown

A Letter All About Toast

The "My Kid Won't Eat Dinner" Survival Guide

The Short List of Kitchen Tools That Actually Earn Their Counter Space

How To Batch Cook & Save Yourself 10 Hours a Week

The 6 Cooking Mistakes You're Making (That Aren't Your Fault)

What to Cook When You Hate Cooking

The Eco-Friendly Swap That Saves You $3,000 a Year

🐟 One Piece of Salmon, Five Dinners 🐟

The Morning Habit I Accidentally Started...and Can't Stop

Secrets Grocery Stores Don't Want You To Know & How To Use Them To Your Advantage

12 Recipes to Get You Over the Egg Ick 🍳

5 Sauces That Make Everything Look Way Fancier Than It Is

We Did the Math on Cooking at Home (& the results are way crazier than I thought)

What to Do With All That Random Stuff in Your Pantry: Spring Reset Edition

I Switched to Brodo & Everything I Made Tasted Better

Salmon Has Been the "It Girl" of Protein For 10,000 Years. Here's Why.

The Sick Kid Survival Guide 🤒

Crossover Recipes for the Super Bowl *and* Valentine's Day...they exist

10 Snacks That Will Actually Keep Your Kids Full Until Dinner

How To Make Your Favorite Restaurant Recipes at Home

Protein-Hacks for Your Pickiest Eaters

The One-Pan Dinner Formula & 7 of the Pepper Community’s Favorite Recipes

12 Cooking Resolutions for 2026 🎊

10 Holiday Recipes From Around the World w/ Roles for the Whole Family

I Tried Every Viral TikTok Recipe From 2025 So You Don't Have To

🍲 The 5-Step Soup Formula to Save you Hours in the Kitchen! 🍜

3 Meals To Feed Your Family on Repeat (feat. Grocery List!)

🦃A Very Pepper Guide to Thanksgiving Hosting Hacks & Black Friday Deals

The Vegetables Your Kids Will Actually Eat (tested by real kids)

🍗 The Rotisserie Chicken Makeover 🍗 (one bag, five recipes)

Your Slow Cooker Is Lying To You

Not Your Mother's Casserole Recipe (& how to give an age old classic a modern glow up)

🎃 Boos, Brews, & Braises: Your Complete Halloween Dinner Party Guide

The Secret Histories of New York's Most Scandalous Restaurants 🥂

The Taste Makers: Inside Fashion's Billion-Dollar Food Strategy

The Ultimate Guide to Food Podcasts

Summer travel, sneaking suspicions, Spanish ingredients, and Sicily suggestions

I'm over it—time to break all the food rules

Has food gotten boring?

I went to a wedding...and woke up in Mexico City

How to travel better, like Anthony Bourdain

The Purge: Kitchen Edition 🧹

Ok, but is a hot dog a sandwich or...?

Eggs, Lies & Marketing: The Scandalous Story Behind Your Morning Breakfast 🍳

Spring Produce Cheat Codes & The Science of Seasonal Eating 🥕

Are Ingredient Labels Manipulating You? The Sneaky Linguistics of Food Marketing

Kitchen Mistakes That Made Culinary History & 6 Chicken Recipes You Can Make With Just 5 Ingredients

Your Complete Dinner Party Survival Guide (feat. all the secrets they don't teach you in school)

The Crunch Factor 🍿

The Secret Life of Farmers Markets 👨‍🌾

Can architecture *actually* change how food tastes?

Can food actually turn you on? 🫦

10 Cooking Tips Every 20-Something Should Know by Now 👩‍🍳 👨‍🏫

The Dirty, Delicious, Dark Side of Your Favorite Condiments 🕵️🍯

I just really want to talk about pickles 🥒

Yes, Food Only Tastes As Good As the Music It’s Cooked To

The Great Tinned Fish Renaissance: From "Ew, That's Cat Food!" to Protein-Filled Status Symbol 🐟

Fantastic FEASTS & How To Recreate Them 🍽️

Spice Up Your Life: The Science, History, and Global Impact of Spices 🌶️ & Things that are Spicy 🥵

Grandma-Approved Cooking Hacks that Will Save You Hours in the Kitchen

Why you can't stop picking at the turkey skin & the dark academia behind dinner party etiquette

Soup's PR team responds to the "allegations"

From Caviar to Tinned Fish: The Ever-Evolving Status Symbols of What We Eat and Why We Eat It

When Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart, We’ve Still Got To Eat

10 foodie Halloween costumes you (probably) have in your closet

What the *actual* funk?!

social experiments in culinary anarchism & a really good roast chicken recipe

Why science wants you to eat a vat of lard, the *best* banana bread recipe & an unhinged history of pie

How to stock your pantry the fancy way & other stories

What Neil deGrasse Tyson and Anthony Bourdain Have To Say About Your Tongue

👨‍🍳 Did Garbage Men Invent Fine Dining?🍝

Stanley Tucci ate leaves on the internet so I did too

🥒 Apparently shrimp have secrets & cucumbers just got 4.8 million times cooler

🤝 shared albums but make it recipes

😋 you need these summer dishes

❤️ (1 million) reasons to love Pepper

🚨 Calling all Home Cooks

🎶 Please Don't Stop the Madness

Guess who's back...

This Way to Your Table, Please