Kat Thompson

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Rebecca Flint Marx Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. She likes shrimp both deep-fried and dipped in tartar sauce or raw with spicy Thai dressing. In the vast sea of shrimp recipes, it can be a challenge to know which ones to try. Shrimp tacos can be prepared a million ways. Seafood chowder recipes are as numerous as they are inconsistent.

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This egg shortage has been difficult for me as someone who puts a fried egg on every meal and bakes a lot. A meal of eggs, rice, and soy sauce carried me through times when I couldn’t afford much else, but now that I’ve seen prices in Los Angeles skyrocket to $14 for a dozen, they feel less like part of the struggle meal and more like a luxury. Which made me wonder: How is an egg-themed cafe managing through all this turmoil?

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Kat Thompson “I always remember the excitement around Passover, which revolved around renewal and new beginnings,” says Beejhy Barhany, the author of Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens from Ethiopian, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond. For Barhany, Passover was a time to reunite with family over a meal served in handmade pottery, breaking the dishes that were created the prior year as a symbol for the new beginnings.

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BBA Photography/Shutterstock Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. She’s once eaten an entire loaf of babka in a single day. When I asked my colleagues for their favorite babka recipes, I truly expected deafening silence. I wondered how many were going through the challenges of rolling and twisting and braiding to get to a perfectly moist and swirly loaf, when buying one would be simpler.

3 weeks ago | eater.com | Kat Thompson

Levy When you think of baseball stadium food, you’re probably thinking of the classics: hot dogs wrapped in foil, buttery popcorn, a crinkly bag of Cracker Jack. Although these items are still plentiful, dining at a baseball game has now become an exciting culinary affair. You can find kimchi-topped burgers, blistered shishito peppers, and grilled steak with chimichurri at ballparks across the United States.