american cuisine

  • Your Pancakes Need Apple Cider Syrup

    Your Pancakes Need Apple Cider Syrup

    Apple cider syrup is the dirty martini of pancake syrups. Pure maple syrup may be the delicate, classic choice, but there’s a certain kind of wayward satisfaction when you make a syrup out of something intended for drinking. This technique is dead simple, cheaper than real maple syrup, and gives you the concentrated snap of…


  • You Should Fry a Hard Boiled Egg

    You Should Fry a Hard Boiled Egg

    Some of my favourite foods are utilitarian sources of protein. Cottage cheese, jerky, hard boiled eggs — things I can grab and shove in my face the moment I realise I’m way past hungry. (Being a food writer does not automatically make one good at recognising hunger cues, as it turns out.) Hard boiled eggs…