9 Best Articles on Cooking
The most useful articles on cooking from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Cooking Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on cooking by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on cooking—all under 10 minutes.
Cooking Goes Electric. For Good?
Regulations and environmental benefits have placed electric ranges into focus. Here's what you need to know.
35 Game Changing Food, Cooking, And Eating Charts
Reading this is like taking a cooking course in a five minutes.
In Defence of Garlic in a Jar: How Food Snobs Almost Ruined My Love of Cooking
Celebrity chefs, food writers, and home cooks have sneered at pre-cut produce. They’re dismissing those of us with disabilities
27 Best Cooking Tips From Celebrity Chefs
If it's good enough for Gordon Ramsay, it's good enough for me.
When cooking became cut-throat: A brief history of the culinary competition
Our collective hunger for cooking as sport is an enduring mainstay, from Medieval Baghdad to modern cable TV
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on cooking.
50 simple ways to make your life greener
Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain, According to Those Who Knew Him Best
Chefs, artists, and loved ones pay tribute to the late culinary icon.
How did home cooking become a moral issue?
In their new book, Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It, three academics explain why we’ve put too much emphasis on family dinner.
Five Useful Cooking Techniques No One Teaches You
Most of us learn to cook through trial and error, the Food Network, or being forced to feed ourselves when no one else will do it. So naturally, no one’s born knowing how to sauté chicken, or blanch vegetables. Here are some basic (but useful) cooking techniques chefs use every day, but the rest of us rarely pick up.
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