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14 Telltale Signs a Recipe Sucks
It’s not you. It’s the recipe.
 • David Leite
Yeast are Never Depressed
This summer has been a shitshow. Lyme disease, ER visits, The One's impending open-heart surgery. Of course, an old friend stopped by. Re-reading this…
 • David Leite
Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone?
No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?
 • David Leite
The Pan Snoot
Back in the day, I was rabidly classist when it came to my batterie de cuisine. It took a Bundt pan, the workhorse of the hoi polloi, to bitch-slap the…
 • David Leite
Forever and Completely
A cake stands the test of time...and the vicissitudes of a three-decades-long love.
 • David Leite
When Life Ain't a Disney Movie, Make Lemon Drizzle Cake
Turns out I'm not bipolar. I just need lemon cake.
 • David Leite
When Costco Gives You Croissants, Make a Croque Monsieur Casserole
What's a boy to do with a kitchen filled with ginorous packages of croissants, ham, cheese, and mustard? Go all Betty Crocker on their asses.
 • David Leite
Love Food: Pork and Pie
Love food is the kind of dishes you share with your person, meals imbued with all the promise of love, both now and forever. In our case, it was…
 • David Leite
Homemade Cultured Butter
Imagine Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, and Bette Midler churned into butter. Elegant, rich, and tangy. Once you taste, you'll always make haste.
 • David Leite
12 Easy Cheese Recipes for Ultimate Comfort
Man can live by cheese alone.
 • David Leite
Because I Can, Damn it!
How a dust-up with a friend kept me from making a recipe I'd wanted to make for years—homemade ketchup.
 • David Leite
Healthy-ish Recipes (That Don’t Taste Like Sadness)
Make one recipe and call me in the morning.
 • David Leite
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