Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Sriracha Embroidery

One of my flickr contacts, christ(ine), posted this perfectly rendered sriracha embroidery. This is the only hot sauce in my house, and its sweetspicy is addictive. In fact, it has an almost cult-like following. I’m not surprised one bit that she felt compelled to stitch this up, but I am shocked at how well she […]

10 Ways to Photograph Food

We’ve had many a discussion in our CRAFT offices with our photographer Sam Murphy about how hard it is to photograph food. For you budding food bloggers, take a visit to Chow.com’s slideshow 10 ways to photograph food for more inspiration. I like the approach used by Jamie Olivier pictured above where it’s real food […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s all about the sweets today so even if you haven’t had time to think of anything at all for Vday, make some delicious desserts for your family, your honey, or just for yourself! I’m a chocoholic so I’m loving Epicurious’ favorite chocolate recipes, perfect for Valentine’s Day.

How-To: Cranberry Cookies

Christy at Instructables has a recipe for these delightful cranberry cookies, which appear to be perfect in every way: Cranberry cookies make great Christmas cookies, but are also a great way to use up leftover fresh cranberries after the holidays. These are my favorite cranberry nut swirl cookies – they’re well worth freezing cranberries so […]