Amy McCarthy

1 week ago | eater.com | Amy McCarthy

While the KitchenAid is far and away the most popular stand mixer in American home kitchens, most people who bake bread or pizza frequently know it is not always the best at kneading dough. KitchenAid mixers are planetary mixers, which mean that they basically just rotate around a single fixed point, and even with the dough hook, aren’t very good at forming gluten. As such, many home bakers covet standing spiral mixers, which are better at producing strong, beautifully silky doughs.

3 weeks ago | eater.com | Amy McCarthy

Tada Images/Shutterstock.com Just in case you weren’t already worried enough about the state of our food supply, the Food and Drug Administration has apparently decided that telling American consumers about deadly food-borne illness outbreaks just isn’t important anymore. An investigation by NBC News uncovered an FDA report from November 2024, when people started coming down with serious illnesses after consuming lettuce that was contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

4 weeks ago | eater.com | Amy McCarthy

During springtime in Louisiana, you don’t have to go far outside your door before the smell of cayenne, garlic, and citrus hits your nostrils. This is peak crawfish boil season, when families across the state haul out their enormous crawfish cooking rigs and invite their friends over for a feast of mudbugs, potatoes, corn, and sausage, all boiled in the state’s distinct blend of Cajun spices.

1 month ago | eater.com | Amy McCarthy

On its face, it’s an absurd premise: a Doritos tortilla chip that could really taste like a cheeseburger. There’s just no way that a sprinkling of flavor powder could actually replicate the savory beefiness of a burger patty. Or at least that’s what I thought, until this latest generation of Doritos made me realize that American chips are getting uncannily beefy. I picked up a bag of the Late Night Cheeseburger Doritos on a total whim.

1 month ago | eater.com | Amy McCarthy

Fabio Lovino/HBO Spoilers for seasons 2 and 3 of The White Lotus within. On Sunday night, the third season of Mike White’s prestige HBO drama The White Lotus came to a conclusion. Now, we know exactly who died, who killed them, and who survived the week at the lush Thai resort, and the show’s sleuthy fans can stop posting their deranged theories about the show’s complicated symbolism. But before we can move on, we simply must discuss that goddamn blender storyline.