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Let’s Make Some Ravioli

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Chris Thompson

Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is: Big Hot Pot

David Roth

Steaks on a grill at the Las Vegas Food And Wine Festival, in the before times.

Podcasts

Talking Fine And Less-Fine Dining, With Liz Cook

A stuffed orange pepper, looking very delicious in a bowl

Let’s Throw Together Some Stuffed Peppers

A hunk of cornbread on a plate on a rustic tabletop

Let’s Bake Some Cornbread

Let’s Cook Up A Nice Big Bowl Of Summer

Life's Rich Pageant

Avoid The Long Burger

A Big Pile Of Tomatoes Is A Salad If You Say It Is

A plate of fried green tomatoes, with a Chefector badge

Let’s Fry Some Green Tomatoes

Smoke The Pork, Pull The Pork, And Put The Pork In A Sandwich

Let’s Make Some Slaw

A very tiny green baby tomato on the vine

It Is Not Yet Tomato Time, Blasphemers

Some chicken, with a little potato salad peeking up from the bottom of the frame

Let’s Smoke Some Chicken On A Regular Charcoal Grill

You Can Always Just Throw Together Some Seafood Stew

A plate of oysters, a bowl of mignonette sauce, and the Chefector badge

Let’s Shuck And Eat Some Oysters

Laura Wagner

Crabfector

You Can Crab

Let’s Cook Some Black Bean Soup

A bunch of fried seafood and lemons, with the Chefector badge

Let’s Fry Up Some Crispy Seafood

A turkey leg smothered in some sort of cream-based seafood slop. Delicious.

Life Lessons

Stuff And Smother More Food, Goddammit

Let’s Make Lobster Rolls

Samer Kalaf

Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh leaves King Edward VII's Hospital in central London on March 16, 2021.

This Is So Stupid

What’s The Least Flavorful Food Item That Would Nonetheless Instantly Vaporize Prince Philip?

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 Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

In this picture taken on August 27, 2020, Daniel Chan poses with a tin of Hoisin sauce with labling that reads ÒMade in Hong KongÓ made at the Koon Chun Sauce Factory, founded by his great-grandfather n 1928, in Hong Kong, which produces soy, hoisin and oyster sauces found in Chinese restaurants and kitchens around the world. - At the Koon Chun Sauce Factory workers are scrambling to cover hundreds of thousands of bottles with new "Made in China" labels as the popular Hong Kong brand falls victim to spiralling diplomatic tensions. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH: HongKong-China-US-politics-economy, FOCUS by Su Xinqi (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)