Food Is Everything.
Welcome to The Bittman Project
Lots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. The Bittman Project does both.
We bring you new cooking projects and old favorites; fast, lazy, simple, terrific weeknight standbys; and challenging weekend adventures. We share letters from the kitchen, tips, tricks, techniques, tools, product recommendations, ingredients, family secrets. And we produce reported pieces, profiles, interviews, and rants about what’s broken in the food world (there’s a lot) and how to change things for the better.
Big Announcement From Me and My Team
We have been talking about building a website that would wow you (and us) for years, and I’m happy to say we’re doing it.
Is This THE Best Way to Cook Eggplant?
Two ingredients, plus whatever seasoning you’d like, and you’ve got something fancy.
JFK Season
If you’re my age – 73 – Thanksgiving is “JFK season,” a phrase originated by the subject of a recent Scott Sayere piece. Kennedy was shot on November 22, a Friday; Thanksgiving was the following Thursday. In my family, that was a busy time, anyway, because my parents’ wedding anniversary was November 23 and, for good measure, my mother’s birthday a week later. Throw in the occasional early Hanukkah and in some years, it was a full week of ritual, remembrances, and celebrations.
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We produce reported pieces, profiles, interviews, and rants about what’s broken in the food world (there’s a lot) and how to change things for the better. People sometimes tell me to just keep politics out of it. Respectfully: No. Food is political. We can’t and won’t ignore that.
About Us
We’re a team that shares a common set of values: specifically, that food should be fair to people and animals, affordable for everyone, nutritious, and produced in a way that respects nature and the environment. Food should also taste good; more often than not, that requires shopping, preparing, and cooking.
Marksisms
Tom Colicchio’s Stuffing, Ironed Toast, and General Goodness
Getting spirited with comfort food and people we like a lot View this post on…
Vietnamese Cooking in America Comes Full Circle
Plus: Recipes to die for, sugar warnings, and the “next” Joan Didion This Week’s Marksisms…
The Choreography of Cooking
Plus: Being delighted by squash, what “heritage” means, and I get interviewed This Week’s Marksisms…
“Live” With José Andrés and Mark Bittman!
A few things from us today, but no Marksisms — Mark has been busily working on Community Kitchen this week, which is super exciting, and today interviewed someone wonderful for the podcast.