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Lauren Theisen

a set of homemade toasted subs with ground beef, cheese, green pepper and onion

Life Lessons

How I Got Comfortable With Cooking, And Eating

<p>Libby Watson is a writer, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/libtron">streamer</a> and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatsallthisthen">podcaster</a>.</p>


Libby Watson

A roasted and sliced turkey breast with the Chefector badge of a cartoon chef eating a gigantic burger.

Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club

The Case For Thanksgiving II

Rachelle Hampton

A cooking arena is divided into two sides: one black and one white. On each side there are ten chefs facing the other side.

Arts And Culture

‘Culinary Class Wars’ Is A Tribute To Getting Your Reps In

A sideboard-type piece of furniture with a spread of food including pork, rice, lettuce, cucumber salad, and kimchi, plus a pair of decorative plates and a lamp. Plus the Chefector logo.

An Undefeatable Dinner, For Rising From The Ashes

A tabletop laden with various delicious salads and some roasted potatoes and spreads, with a cartoon logo.

Dazzle Your Dinner-Party Friends With Bread

Picture shows an adult Halloween dinner party.

Let’s Make Dinner For Friends, Like For A Dinner Party, But Normal

Lauren's spatula, with its shaft bent at an angle

Chefector

The Cooking Implement Of The Day Is The Bent Spatula

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<div>Abigail Segel is a contributing writer at Defector. She is also an editor for The IX Soccer and the Equalizer. Her work has been published in the Guardian and the Montreal Gazette.</div>
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Abigail Segel

Honey Butternut Squash (a new hybrid crop) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on October 08, 2023.

Let’s Cook Some Squash, And Get Through This Winter

Kathryn Xu

Hand taking food with chopsticks. Eating Hot Pot at restaurant

Let’s Explore The Infinite Realm Of Hot Pot

Kelly Conaboy

A cupcake baking pan messily filled with French onion soup

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

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

It’s Summer! Let’s Cook Some Eggplant

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

<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

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

Alex Pareene

Sarah Mody (C), Senior Product Marketing Manager, Global Search and AI, gives demonstrations in the Bing Experience Lounge with during an event introducing a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington on February 7, 2023. - Microsoft's long-struggling Bing search engine will integrate the powerful capabilities of language-based artificial intelligence, CEO Satya Nadella said, declaring what he called a new era for online search.

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cooking

How I Got Comfortable With Cooking, And Eating

The Case For Thanksgiving II

‘Culinary Class Wars’ Is A Tribute To Getting Your Reps In

An Undefeatable Dinner, For Rising From The Ashes

Dazzle Your Dinner-Party Friends With Bread

Let’s Make Dinner For Friends, Like For A Dinner Party, But Normal

The Cooking Implement Of The Day Is The Bent Spatula

Let’s Cook Some Squash, And Get Through This Winter

Let’s Explore The Infinite Realm Of Hot Pot

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

It’s Summer! Let’s Cook Some Eggplant

You Just Need A Thermometer

Your Crummy Apartment Stove Is Perfectly Fine For Cooking

Pink Lemonade For Everybody!

How To Help Your Kids Learn To Like A Food

Grains Of Rice, Ranked

How To Break Free Of Recipe Dependence

I Have Seen The Future Of User-Determined AI Bias

It’s Good To Make Your Own Stock Sometimes

You Have No Excuse For Disliking Vegetables

Send Me Your Food Questions

My Damn Oven Died Just In Time For Thanksgiving

Let’s Make The Chili That, Uh, I Made This Week

A Delicious Thing To Do With Some Mushrooms

Green Action!