Jif Peanut Butter Is Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns

Before you make that batch of 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies or No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars With Oreo Crust for dessert this week, check your pantry! Jif peanut butter products are being taken off shelves at retailers across the country due to a mul…

Before you make that batch of 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies or No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars With Oreo Crust for dessert this week, check your pantry! Jif peanut butter products are being taken off shelves at retailers across the country due to a multi-state outbreak of salmonella. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company has voluntarily recalled a whopping 49 peanut butter products including creamy and crunchy peanut butter in an assortment of sizes, no sugar added peanut butter, natural creamy and crunchy peanut butter, reduced-fat peanut butter, to-go cups of peanut butter, and more (the full list of recalled peanut butter products can be found here). The products were distributed nationwide and have lot code numbers between 1274425 through 2140425.

Jif is part of the JM Smucker Company Facility, which also includes brands like Folgers, Meow Mix, Milk-Bone, Rachael Ray Nutrish, Smucker’s, and more.

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Meet the Food Stylist Who Recreated Julia Child’s Kitchen

“My father adored Julia Child. Each weekend morning, he would be found sitting on his reclining chair with a stack of newspapers on his lap. There was always a quiet start to our weekend. The volume was so low that you could hear the pages of the newsp…

“My father adored Julia Child. Each weekend morning, he would be found sitting on his reclining chair with a stack of newspapers on his lap. There was always a quiet start to our weekend. The volume was so low that you could hear the pages of the newspaper fold. As I recall, The French Chef would be shown on PBS after Bob Ross's Joy of Painting. I would sit on the carpet with my pens and paper and draw along with his instruction. Then enters Julia Child.”

This was Christine Tobin’s first introduction to the world renowned culinary figure. Thirty years later, Christine would grow up to be a food stylist for television and movies, eventually landing on the set of Julia, the new HBO Max series about one of the original “celebrity chefs.”

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What on Earth Is Nic Cage’s Favorite Pasta Shape?

It happened so fast. With the click of his cursor, Nicolas Cage ruined my life. Or at least several of my afternoons. While participating in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit on Saturday, April 9, Cage described something so unhinged, it fully consumed me. …

It happened so fast. With the click of his cursor, Nicolas Cage ruined my life. Or at least several of my afternoons. While participating in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit on Saturday, April 9, Cage described something so unhinged, it fully consumed me. And the thing was this: “square tube pasta.”

More specifically, he wrote in response to a question about his favorite noodle shape, “I once went to an Italian restaurant in San Francisco about 25 years ago with Charlie Sheen because they had square tube pasta and he was very interested in trying square tube pasta and we did and we loved it so much we went back the next day to try it again.”

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161,692 Pounds of Skippy Peanut Butter Have Been Recalled

Before you make a PB&J sandwich for yourself or your little ones, check your pantry! Skippy Peanut Butter has launched a massive voluntary recall of three different products due to possible metal contamination: Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butt…

Before you make a PB&J sandwich for yourself or your little ones, check your pantry! Skippy Peanut Butter has launched a massive voluntary recall of three different products due to possible metal contamination: Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, Skippy Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter Spread, and Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein. The total recall weighs more than 161,692 pounds and comes after small fragments of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment were discovered in some of the product.

The recalled product was distributed to 18 states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

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Impossible Foods Sausage Links Are the Plant-Based Meat I Didn’t Know I Wanted

I’m not really a breakfast person. I’m a croissant-on-Fridays person. I’m definitely a coffee person. I’m a have-a-bowl-of-oatmeal-at-11:30-and-call-it-brunch person. But I’m not someone who, by any means, diligently eats half a grapefruit every morning or devours a plate of bacon and eggs, hash browns, and buttered toast sliced kitty-corner before work. The latest launch from Impossible Foods is daring me to change my ways.

The multibillion-dollar plant-based food company has once again expanded its offerings with Impossible Sausage Links. Available in three varieties—Bratwurst, Italian, and Spicy—the sausage links join their Impossible relatives, which include ground sausage, breakfast sausage patties, and frozen sausage patties. The links are made to taste like pork sausage and offer the same satisfying crack you get when biting into a meaty sausage link, thanks to the plant-based casing.

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I’m not really a breakfast person. I’m a croissant-on-Fridays person. I’m definitely a coffee person. I’m a have-a-bowl-of-oatmeal-at-11:30-and-call-it-brunch person. But I’m not someone who, by any means, diligently eats half a grapefruit every morning or devours a plate of bacon and eggs, hash browns, and buttered toast sliced kitty-corner before work. The latest launch from Impossible Foods is daring me to change my ways.

The multibillion-dollar plant-based food company has once again expanded its offerings with Impossible Sausage Links. Available in three varieties—Bratwurst, Italian, and Spicy—the sausage links join their Impossible relatives, which include ground sausage, breakfast sausage patties, and frozen sausage patties. The links are made to taste like pork sausage and offer the same satisfying crack you get when biting into a meaty sausage link, thanks to the plant-based casing.

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Heads Up: There’s a Trader Joe’s Salad Recall

People who purchased Trader Joe’s salad in certain states are being advised to throw away or return the packaged product this week. The Crunchy Slaw with Chicken, Crispy Noodles & Peanut Dressing maybe came out a little to crunchy in versions sent …

People who purchased Trader Joe’s salad in certain states are being advised to throw away or return the packaged product this week. The Crunchy Slaw with Chicken, Crispy Noodles & Peanut Dressing maybe came out a little to crunchy in versions sent to Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah: it may contain hard plastics, the company announced on its website on Thursday.

While salad is a common product in the food safety recall world, that generally tends to be due to the high rates of foodborne pathogens with the potential to make customers sick. But any packaged food can fall victim to manufacturing line mishaps, as seems to be the case in this incident.

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Goodbye to Chowhound, the Internet’s First Food Hub

Sometime in the mid-2000s, a man invited me to kill his ducks. He had a few males from his latest batch of babies, and they couldn’t live in the middle of the city with his laying females. If I came and helped slaughter, he would split the meat with me…

Sometime in the mid-2000s, a man invited me to kill his ducks. He had a few males from his latest batch of babies, and they couldn’t live in the middle of the city with his laying females. If I came and helped slaughter, he would split the meat with me. I agreed. But driving home with a lap full of duck, I needed to figure out how to cook and preserve the meat and the innards, so I turned to the only place on the internet at the time that would have just the kind of weird, wonderful recipes I needed: Chowhound. There, people pointed me toward five-hour roast duck, and to someone else with a similar problem wondering what to do with way too many pounds of duck liver.

Before there was Food52, before there was Serious Eats, before any food websites fully embraced that people wanted to know more about food than what newspaper recipes and reviews had been doing for years, there was Chowhound. Since before Y2K, its simple message board interface gathered food nerds and connected them to others in their area and around the world—helping them find a place to buy Burmese tea leaves in Seattle or eat soup dumplings in Cincinnati; guiding them through recipes for duck prosciutto or Uruguayan provoleta.

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How Home Cooks Are Supporting Ukrainians Right Now

On February 26, Olia Hercules posted an image of a printed photo on Instagram: “My mum, my brother and me. Circa 1985 by the Black or Azov sea. I look as fierce and pissed off as I am right now,” reads the start of the caption. “Sasha, my brother, is n…

On February 26, Olia Hercules posted an image of a printed photo on Instagram: “My mum, my brother and me. Circa 1985 by the Black or Azov sea. I look as fierce and pissed off as I am right now,” reads the start of the caption. “Sasha, my brother, is now in Kyiv. We are taking everything into our own hands.” This was two days after the Russian military began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and it was not Hercules’s first post on the matter. The London-based chef and author of the cookbooks Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine, and Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe was in the midst of starting what would soon become a worldwide fundraising and awareness campaign, "#CookForUkraine".

Hercules, along with her friend, the food writer Alissa Timoshkina; social personality Clerkenwell Boy; and Unicef's NEXTGen London team, led by Layla Yarjani, established an official Just Giving page—within 24 hours, they’d raised over $7000 for Unicef UK. The hashtag was flooded with images of Ukrainian dishes made by home cooks and chefs alike, many sharing personal anecdotes about their relationships to the country and escalating conflict. Over the past week, they raised over $150,000.

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The Four Essential Cooks I Turn to Again and Again

I have a cookbook collection that numbers well over 1,000 volumes. Seriously. And I use them. Not every single one every day, it’s true. But I read all of them—for inspiration, for facts, for specific recipes, for styles, for ingredient information, fo…

I have a cookbook collection that numbers well over 1,000 volumes. Seriously. And I use them. Not every single one every day, it’s true. But I read all of them—for inspiration, for facts, for specific recipes, for styles, for ingredient information, for techniques, and just for fun. But there are a handful of books and writers that I go back to constantly. These are the ones I call “The Essentials.”

The Essentials are the friends I can’t do without. Whether it’s for the philosophy of food, or the basics of making a vinaigrette, these are my daily go-tos. I’ve been in professional kitchens my whole adult life, but these writers are as helpful and necessary to me as they are to someone just starting to cook at home. Though I believe that technique is essential when preparing food, there are other things that are equally essential. And my “essentials” remind us what those other things are.

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