Autumn
Ancho in Cider Recipe
This easy, autumnal highball comes from The Bon Vivants, the cocktail team behind San Francisco's Trick Dog. The spice gets your tastebuds ready for turkey, and the cider tells you it's officially fall. Plus, it can be served hot or cold.
This Week in Food Porn: Carrots, Crockery, and Kim Kardashian's Birthday Cake
This Halloween, dig in to the best of the week's online deliciousness, courtesy of Instagram's finest food porn.
Mangelwurzels Make the Creepiest Jack-o-Lanterns
In the Somerset town of Hinton St. George, locals mark Halloween with "Punkies," hollowed-out mangolds or mangelwurzels (a type of beetroot) containing a lit candle.
This Baker Is Turning 17th Century Witches’ Broth Into Pie
Four hundred years after the trial of Lancashire’s Pendle witches—12 men and women executed for witchcraft and murder—baker Christine Turner makes pies inspired by the broth served at their illicit gatherings.
Apparently We Should Be Making Jack-o-Lanterns with Turnips, Not Pumpkins
According to English Heritage, Brits celebrating Halloween should return to the older, European tradition of carving ghoulish faces into turnips, after wet August weather led to a reduced supply of the squash.
Why Pagans Spend Halloween Baking Bread
Pagans in the English town of Glastonbury celebrate Samhain—a festival marking the start of winter—with mead, storytelling, and ancient bread recipes.
A Scientist Unveils Some New Vegetables for Fall in This Week's Comic from Julian Glander
Introducing the squmpkin, the megasquash, and gourd that looks like a dick.
This Grilled Cabbage Tastes Too Good to Be This Healthy
Charred cabbage wedges make for one hell of a side dish—dare we say it, they’d even work as a pretty stunning meatless centerpiece.
This Week in Food Porn
In preparation for autumn's oncoming carb-load, we bring you another instalment of This Week in Food Porn: MUNCHIES’ guide to the most delicious pics posted to Instagram in the past seven days.
This Fall Foliage Map Shows You When to Expect Peak Autumn Gorgeousness
Why is everyone hating on fall?
The Mooncake Is East Asia’s Answer to Holiday Fruitcake
Made with lotus bean paste and a salted egg yolk centre to represent the moon in its finest hour, mooncakes are traditionally shared as part of East Asia’s Mid-Autumn festival.
This Is Pasta in Its Purest Form
Whoever said you shouldn't wear white after Labor Day clearly hadn't bathed in a glorious bowl of Pecorino and semolina.