Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to finally take advantage of having a real kitchen (so long dorm mini-fridge). You haven’t even cut the price tags off your new kitchen gear, but it’s time to take the plunge and throw a grown-up dinner party

I love to cook. Some of my earliest memories include me perched on a stepstool, sprinkling salt into a mix or nibbling a piece of apple as my mom prepared Thanksgiving dinner. Although I used to worry that I would never inherit my Italian mother’s cooking acumen

Just think: two dollars a day, at least five days a week, fifty-two weeks a year—you’re spending $520 a year at your local coffee shop, and that’s if you’re only drinking one cup per day! Not even Pierre de Fermat could reconcile those numbers, and you don’t have to either

“Knife Skills” are pretty lacking at Chez Gritz. Imagine me butchering a chunk of Crack Barrel sharp cheddar with an ironically un-sharp plastic knife left over from my last delivery order. Congratulations, you’ve successfully imagined Tuesday nights

This recipe is an attempt to capture the flavors of a dish from a quality Mexican restaurant—conveniently called “Mexican Food”—in Kennett Square, PA. It’s quick and tasty, and it requires only one pan. What you will need

On a cool fall day, there is nothing better than the smell of slow-cooked bratwurst, onions, and beer wafting through your small, musty apartment. It will remind you of the Midwest, where the women are a little heavy, but filled with a rare charm. Maybe that’s just me. But no matter

Have you ever seen a bartender produce a new cocktail on the spur of the moment, after a request for “a fruity rum drink, but not too sweet” or “something made with peppermint schnapps”? Like David Blaine, good mixologists aren’t actually magicians, thought it might seem

In a My Super Sweet Sixteen-worthy move, Germany’s King Ludwig I decided to kick off his first year of marriage with a raucous royal horse race. Little did he know that his penchant for romance—because what girl wouldn’t want her love celebrated with all of drunken

By now, the lazy days of college have faded into the past, taking with them frat party keg stands, sketchy mystery meats, and the ubiquitous Easy-Mac. Good riddance to the skeezy parties and mystery meats, but there is definitely something to the idea of a quick and

College life is not known for nurturing manners (though providing the Sizzurp for your roommate’s birthday could be considered polite). Unfortunately, once you arrive in the business world, your job will often depend on