baking

  • How Baking Soda, of All Things, Can Help Your Workout

    How Baking Soda, of All Things, Can Help Your Workout

    Baking soda, more formally known as sodium bicarbonate, has a lot of uses beyond just baking, from cleaning various surfaces, soothing your heartburn, to even browning your meat better. In addition to these uses, baking soda has another unexpected and underrated use: It can be used to improve athletic performance and exercise. Similar to creatine, baking…


  • Start Your Day the Brazilian Way, With a Cake

    Start Your Day the Brazilian Way, With a Cake

    You may think cornbread is the best of what cornmeal has to offer us in terms of baked goods–it’s sturdy, gritty, and great with chilli–but this crunchy bit of maize has a sweet side it would like to show you. (And we’re not talking about sweet cornbread, an abomination.) This dish veers away from bread…