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Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »
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Butter, y'all. More »
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In this video, the very charming Tommy Edison shows how he cooks himself a meal without the benefit of a sense of sight. It looks a lot like how a sighted person would cook, except with more touching — and his tip about using the palm of your hand as a guide to gauge the doneness of meat is a good idea for anyone. Also: cooking is always more fun with beer, even if you spill a little. More »
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It's difficult to determine what's most awful about winter— the constant cold feet and hands, the unpleasant dread of stepping out of the shower, or the horror of opening a heating bill after a month of leaving the thermostat turned up overnight. Since hibernating for three months isn't an option, the best way to cope is to make sure your living space stays as warm and toasty as possible without spending an arm and a leg or burning the joint down. You need to winterize that thing. More »
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If you go to the store and buy a package of chewy chocolate chip cookies and try to pawn them off onto other families at your child's school bake sale, head of the New York Times' confection Staatssicherheit Jennifer Steinhauer thinks you should be locked up with all the bear wrestlers in Alabama so you can think about the cultural damage you're doing to America's proud pot-luck tradition of foisting slimy pineapple upside-down cakes onto friends and neighbors.  In her article, "‘Store-Bought' Spoils the Pot Luck Spirit," Steinhauer explains how those mothers who use flimsy excuses like full-time jobs to avoid breaking out the electric mixer for a school bake sale are part of a more insidious trend of substituting store-bought for homemade food, a trend, by the way, that is eroding one of pillars of the American middle-class: pot-luck.  Is nothing sacred?  Lest you still can't grasp just how egregious the store-bough sin is, Steinhauer is ready to re-frame her outrage in even more domestic terms: More »
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Aunt Marie has some advice for those of you still debating whether your bird will be brined, barbecued, deep-fried, or wrapped in a paper bag come tomorrow afternoon: "Just put the fucking turkey in the oven." According to her, "turkey never really tastes good" anyway. More »
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The ethical pitfalls of eating the steroidal flesh of murdered livestock may keep you from lifting that shrink-wrapped package of ground beef out of the refrigerated bin at the grocery store but, no matter how good Smart Bacon is (and it's actually okay), no meat substitute can quite replace the delicious taste of a freshly slaughtered animal (especially if that animal produces bacon) and no animal can be slaughtered for food without a touch of deliberate callousness.  Except, of course, for roadkill. More »
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Whether you're Occupying Wall Street or just Occupying Your Car, there may come a time in your life when you're hankering for a warm meal but don't have access to any appliances generally used for cooking. In this situation, you can either sad sack yourself to a grocery store or gas station and get yourself some Lunchables that you will wash down with your own tears of ineptitude, or you can take a look at what's around you and cook yourself a meal using alternative heat sources and your own stubborn willpower. More »
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Feast your eyes on this: KitchenAid Brazil is offering a classic mixer in a variety of patterns, but none quite as exciting as this Wonder Woman homage. As someone who has taken a serious interest in cooking over the past year and is looking to get into baking next, this seems like the perfect gift! (Hint hint.) For now, these editions are only being sold in Brazil, but if there's really a Santa Claus, hopefully that will change. More »
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I do not like baking. I won't say that I hate it, because one time I made a batch of vegan cupcakes that were pretty delicious, and I keep a cupcake tin around in case I ever want to make them again. But that cupcake tin has now been through at least three moves without being used — mostly because despite the fact that it (sometimes) results in delicious treats, I find baking incredibly stressful. More »
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Much like you and me, kids need food to survive. The smallest of all kids — babies — need food every hour. As they age, thankfully, the time between feedings grows and so you're more able to find something to read or possibly leave your house for an extended period of time. More »
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In a lot of ways, home cooking has become a lost art. Is a return to home economics classes the solution? We talked to a few food writers about how they learned to cook, and how we could teach a generation of kids. More »
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Good news, guys: men are allowed to cook now! As long as it's meat, and not sissy baked goods. More »
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We'll get to the recipes soon, we promise. For now, just marinate in the organic entitlement that is My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness. More »
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While the Village Voice rightly points out that this reeks of (among other things) an "a belated April Fool's hoax," rumor has it that everyone's favorite polymath (besides James Franco) shot a Bon Appetit cover in London. We still don't know if the Gwyneth-helmed food glossy rumors are true — but we'd never say never when it comes to the Goopster. More »
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About three years ago, I was over at some boy's house and we were cooking dinner. Since I didn't know how to cook much of anything and I hadn't been dating this guy for very long, I declared it Taco Night, because it takes a special kind of fuck up to ruin tacos, and I wasn't quite ready for him to know that I knew nothing about cooking. Not a damn thing. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5783809&view=rss&microfeed=true Where do we begin? With chicken! (For Ina, it always, eventually comes down to the chicken.) Or, more precisely, her Lemon Roasted Chicken Breasts—I've made them!—whose (Is "whose" appropriate when we're talking about chicken breasts? Whatever.) ease of… [Gawker.TV] More »
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Check out the blog Perfect Pandas' translation of a Japanese recipe for "Panda Bread." Finally, you can satisfy your hunger and love of adorable panda pics at the same time. More »
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Model Flora Cheung has no culinary training and no previous experience hosting a cooking show, but she does have breasts and a see thru apron and a set and a crew, and so obviously what must happen now is she get her own cooking show in Hong Kong. Optimistic individuals involved with the show believe that the show's combining of boobs and food will endear the culinary arts to men, whereas a more realistic individual might assume that many men are already plenty endeared to female nudity and probably wouldn't learn much from a naked lady trying to teach them things, anyway, unless that thing the naked lady is trying to teach them is "how to masturbate." More »
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"I came across an axiom in a passage from a culinary memoir called Heat in which the author, Bill Buford, observes the following: 'You can divide people into two categories in life: cooks and bakers.'" More here. More »
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In a roundup of the stupidest questions asked of the patient angels working the Butterball Turkey Hotline, the one that really stands out is, "Can I brine my turkey in the washing machine?" Damn. Wish we'd thought of that. More »
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The revelation of an elaborate stuffing recipe in the icon's own hand has led to speculation that perhaps Marilyn was, in fact, a domestic goddess. More »
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Okay, yes, they're only dating. But still! Thanks to Megan for reminding us of this particular abomination: Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake. More »
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"Yes, it's feminism we have to thank for the spread of fast-food chains and an epidemic of childhood obesity." How, you ask? Why, the (supposed) death of home cooking! More »
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We are slightly obsessed with Food52's new real-time groupthink resource, Foodpickle. Recent tweeted-from-the-grocery-aisle questions include recipes for black-eyed peas and "what is the minimum G-force necessary to clarify duck stock in a centrifuge within 5 minutes?" More »
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Few things inspire the outrage that is prompted by foodie television stars. More »
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...Or, really, overcoming the coriander aversion. More »
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The era of the macho-chef may be waning, but is his heir apparent any better? More »
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• According to a study out of the UK, women spend three years of their lives cooking, which is more than double the amount of time men spend in front of the stove. But there is good news:

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According to the Observer, unemployed men have been reduced to poaching eggs, weighing edamame and — shocker — playing with children. But silly as their concerns may seem, they may be part of a larger recessionary turn toward housewifery. More »
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"Beware the office feeder!" cautions the Daily Mail. "They tempt with sweets and treats, but never tuck in themselves - what are they up to?" Nothing sinister, I swear! More »
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In this video, cook Titli Nihaan gives a simple recipe for becoming a celebrity chef. Her parody may be a little too good — now we really want to know how to cook with "Monster Munch." Click to watch. More »
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There's been a lot of Gwyneth Paltrow-hate around here -– and more generally, all throughout the GOOP-aware section of the internet –- but her newest interview in Vogue made me (gasp) kind of like her. More »
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In this morning's Dirt Bag, I posted a quote from Robert Pattinson, who admitted that the only thing he can cook is toast. A few commenters pointed out that anyone can cook, provided they can follow directions. I disagree! More »
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Dan and Annie Shannon are offering a "humane alternative" to Julie & Julia — by "veganizing every recipe in The Betty Crocker Cookbook." The results — despite lack of meat, eggs, and dairy — look pretty delicious. More »
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Will your upcoming three-day weekend involve grilling, margaritas or making ice cream? It could, if you buy pricey gourmet gadgets from the new Williams-Sonoma catalog! More »
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who also says: "I was a fat chef myself once. Got up to 250 pounds. I was cranky. I was irritable. Still am a little irritable." [NY Post] More »
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Spencer Walker's new cookbook is "for any dude who's tired of dropping good money on dates that only get him a kiss on the cheek." From OMFG PB&J to Spank My Halibut, these are "recipes to get you laid." [SFWeekly] More »
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We have few authority figures we can look up to anymore. Politicians are up to their eyes in love-children and corruption. Priests reel from accusations of child-tampering. What's left? Cook's Illustrated, a bastion of goodness in a naughty world. More »
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Often the conversation about women and food is one of pathology — of eating disorders and body hate. And while this is an important conversation, food writer Kim Severson reminds us that it's not the only one. More »
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