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Video: How to Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies
You may have the basic sugar cookie recipe down, but how do you make your holiday cookies look pretty? Howcast gives some simple cookie decorating tips. Watch the video after the jump....Bûches de Noël: Not All Are Created Equal
Jacques Torres loves bûches de Noël, but even he doesn't take them as seriously as they do in Paris, according to the New York Times. There the Christmas logs are "opportunities for creativity, commerce, competition, and consumption among various Parisian shops." The great Paris bakery Lenotre hired de Givenchy this year to design a $160 bûche that features a a golden ribbon of pulled sugar and a light dusting of 22-karat gold. I guess there's gold in them thar buches. Me, I still prefer pie during the holidays....In Videos: 'Chinese Food on Christmas'
What do you do on Christmas if you're Jewish? Chinese food and a movie. Brandon Walker sings about this perennial pairing, after the jump....Season's Greetings from Serious Eats
We wanted to take a moment to offer you the warmest season's greetings. Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or simply the winter solstice, we hope your holiday season is filled with plenty of love and deliciousness. Happy holidays, serious eaters.Jacques Torres on the Bûche de Noël
"It’s something special. I go out of my way to make that." In his new book A Year in Chocolate, Jacques Torres claims that the "bûche de Noël, a classic dessert of the French Christmas season, is quickly becoming an American tradition." Torres has a history nearly as illustrious as the chocolate that is his medium. When asked to describe chocolate, he waxes didactic: it was traded as currency, used as an aphrodisiac, exalted as a food of the gods, and served as a royal exclusive. In his more than a decade as pastry chef at Le Cirque, Jacques created aphrodisiac desserts for royalty, that certainly traded for a lot of currency. In 2000, Jacques opened his own chocolate factory...In Videos: Microwaves Play 'Jingle Bells'
The Scrooge in me says that something just doesn't add up here. How could they possibly time all these microwaves to play "Jingle Bells," accounting for the different cook times and for the time it would take to press all the "Cook" or "Start" buttons? But then my inner Jacob Marley warns me to just go with it and believe—to enjoy the show. And that's more fun. The video, after the jump. Happy seasonings!...In Videos: The Budweiser Clydesdales Christmas Commercial
Yesterday, it was a classic Coke Christmas commercial. Today, it's the old '80s Budweiser Clydesdales commercial—the one where they throw some sleighbells on the beer-schlepping beasts and trot them out through the snow. Relive the snowy, idealized past, after the jump. Happy seasonings!...A Tree, with All the (Edible) Trimmings
A Candy Cane-Trimmed Tree. Photo by PugnoM. I saw The Nutcracker last night, and seeing tutu-clad sugarplums, shimmying Arabian coffee, and pirouetting marzipan reminded that somehow everything at Christmas is so delectable—so edible. When I wish for a white Christmas, I hope for a snow shower of sugar to cover my table, more than a blanket of frozen water to shroud my house. So, in the spirit of making this year an edible Christmas and of living in my own candyland, I want every ornament on my tree to be fit for consumption. I am going to hang gingerbread men (not fatally), with their wry, white smiles and buttoned-up demeanors. A few branches to the left I'll place a...In Videos: 'Buy the World a Coke' 1984 Christmas Version
If you lived through the '70s and '80s, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" is burned into your gray matter. Here's a Christmas version, from 1984, after the jump. Happy seasonings!...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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