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How One Woman is Helping Syrian Refugees—With Recipes
A Syrian cooking website is an invaluable resource for communities welcoming refugees.


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Would You Let a Stranger Cook You Dinner??
A new food-delivery startup connects home cooks with hungry customers.

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Bread and Roses—and Determination—for a Dark January Weekend
An old labor song exhorts us to seek bread for sustenance—and then ask for more.


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This New Study Has the Best News Ever About Caffeine
Go ahead, drink coffee as if your life depended on it. Because that might actually be true.



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The #cook90 Recipe That Makes Your Kitchen Cleaner
The best way to keep a kitchen clean is to avoid getting it dirty in the first place.

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Drinking Horchata, Listening to Vampire Weekend
Listen to the band's "Horchata" while you make the sweet almond drink.

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I Cooked From Soframiz for an Entire Day. Here's What Happened.
Ana Sortun's new book of Middle Eastern recipes as seductive as they seem? Only a non-stop cooking marathon can tell.

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Make Way for Savory Yogurt! (And One Stunner of an Australian Dessert)
What's everybody going to be eating in 2017? A couple of Epi staffers got on Slack to talk about it.

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How 4 New York Foodies Are Handling #cook90
We asked a few New York pals how their Month of No Takeout is progressing.

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How to Eat Breakfast Burritos Every Morning (Even Weekdays!)
Make a bunch ahead of time, freeze them, and thank yourself later.

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How Pantry Cooking Helped Me Get Through #Cook90
Cooking three meals a day? The only way to do it is with a well-stocked pantry of fresh, versatile ingredients.

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How to Get Out of Your Cooking Rut
Feeling the winter doldrums in the kitchen? Here's how to breathe new life into your cooking.

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Ground Turkey Breast Must Be Stopped
Those packages of pink meat might not be as healthy as you think.

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cook90 2017, Week 2: Better Leftovers
What are "nextovers"? They're the next big thing in cooking (and #cook90).

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This Week in Food News: Almost Literal Food Porn
Plus: the good and the bad of the future of food.

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The #cook90 2017 Meal Plans
Here, Epi's editor sketches out his weekly #cook90 meal plans (and fesses up when he goes off track).