Nights are feeling crisp, it’s getting darker earlier, and kids are back at school—for most people, vacation meals and casual picnics are over, and it’s time to get back to business with meal and menu prep. If you’re dusting off your pots, pans, and air fryers and thinking you could use an upgrade, Labor Day
It may finally be safe to eat lettuce again after June’s horrifying—and bagged-salad-trust-destroying—cyclospora outbreak. But the summer of ’26’s foodborne illness train rolls on with a new rash of recalls: for salmonella. The FDA has reported multi-state salmonella bacteria outbreaks tied to jalapeños, granola, dog food, alfalfa sprouts (also featuring E. coli), and something most
At a lower cost, each of Raj’s delivery meals consistently tastes better than the (admittedly not great) Punjabi restaurant down the street from me—less sugary, more rich, with saffron-tinged basmati and chicken that remains juicy and plump, not overcooked. Raj’s Indian gravies offer the most compelling argument for me to order CookUnity, in a city
The plastic-free machine rocketed Simply Good into sudden prominence—and indeed, it’s sold out its production runs more than once since its release last year, riding a wave of interest in plastic-free drip coffee makers. The design is similar to Simply Good’s previous model, but with plastic parts removed from the equation. The frame is made
Recipe ingredients are organized nicely into individual bags, and the foldout recipe cards are charmingly well designed and easy to save if you plan to replicate them in the future with or without Purple Carrot. The kits offer a mix of fresh produce and prepackaged ingredients that might include tofu, instant rice, or spice pouches.
A Dreo Flash sale from August 1 to 3 is a deal that made me do an actual double-take: half off the Dreo Chefmaker combi air fryer. The Chefmaker is one of the most interesting pieces of cooking tech I reviewed last year: the only air fryer I’d ever cook a steak in. Or a