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Food

Kelsey McKinney

<p>Staff Writer</p>
<p>Find me on Signal @DefectorChris.19</p>


Chris Thompson

A perfectly made Caterpillar Roll, with a happy little face and lots of festive meringue decorations.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Crawls Through Party Week

A perfect iced drizzle cake, presented on the show.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Wastes Time, Thyme In Botanical Week

A perfectly made pithivier, from Paul Hollywood.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Rises Beautifully For Pastry Week

Six perfect mini-cheesecakes, topped with black currant jelly, whipped cream, and decorative white chocolate triangles.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Is Ill-Tempered For Chocolate Week

Paul Hollywood's Devonshire Splits, as shown on the Bread Week episode. They're very circular, very beautifully even in color, and very neatly decorated with cream and strawberries.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Proves Too Small For Bread Week

A well-made Custard Cream cookie from the show, with a clean stamped pattern that says "CUSTARD CREAM."

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Trembles And Weeps Through Biscuit Week

The beautiful raspberry-topped cakes of the show's contestants.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Once Again Contends With Cake Week

<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


Drew Magary

20th August 1943: Three schoolboys carrying baskets of apples after picking fruit during a stay at the Bishop of Rochesters Harvesting Camp at Cranbrook in Kent. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Fuck It, It’s Apple Crisp Season

Kelly Conaboy

A cupcake baking pan messily filled with French onion soup

French Onion Soup In Cupcake Tins? French Onion Soup In Cupcake Tins

Alex Sujong Laughlin

The author holding a chestnut she found on the street

That’s What I Get For Trying To Honor My Ancestors With Chestnuts I Found On The Street

A jar of cloudy homemade ginger-pear shrub.

Let’s Make Shrub, While There’s Still Time

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Abigail Segel

An array of eggplants at Marché Jean-Talon in Montreal.

It’s Summer! Let’s Cook Some Eggplant

Lauren Theisen

Broadway showgirls (from left) Geraldine Shay, Pat Gale, Bonnie Blair, Genne Courtney and Toni Tucci eat spaghetti with their arms held behind their backs, as part of some sort of competition. 1948.

Which Food Would Win You An Eating Contest?

Albert Burneko

Some chicken and sausages cooking on a hot grill, with a Chefector illustration

You Just Need A Thermometer

Your Crummy Apartment Stove Is Perfectly Fine For Cooking

A glass of pink lemonade, outside with flowers in the background.

Pink Lemonade For Everybody!

How To Help Your Kids Learn To Like A Food

A pigeon selects from the culinary delights in an overflowing garbage can

Uncleanliness Is Next To Godliness

Rice grains in the paddy field in Ranala near Colombo on March 05, 2023.

Underexplained Lists

Grains Of Rice, Ranked

How To Break Free Of Recipe Dependence

Soup cans on a supermarket shelf, with a big Chefector logo in front

It’s Good To Make Your Own Stock Sometimes

<p>Fran Hoepfner is a writer and teacher.</p>


Fran Hoepfner

It’s Time To Stop Fucking Around: We Need An Official Super Bowl Dessert

A vegetable grocery display with carrots and scallions and radishes

You Have No Excuse For Disliking Vegetables

Three chefs hold a giant fish in an old black-and-white photo