Margaret Eby

Philadelphia

Deputy Food Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer

Deputy Food Editor @phillyinquirer. Newsguild Local 38010. Priors: @food52, @foodandwine. I want to be the girl with the most cake

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Articles

I Finally Found a Way to Char Vegetables Without a Grill

1 month ago | nymag.com | Margaret Eby

For 18 years living in Brooklyn apartments, I was constantly confronted with a sad reality: I had no grill and no smart way to grill vegetables indoors — until that day that I was flipping through the Milk Street catalogue and I discovered the Közmatik. Suddenly, a whole world opened up. I use it to make this brilliant vegetable ragù. I use it to grill eggplant to eat with burrata, char Brussels sprouts for salad, or get green beans perfectly blackened.
I Found All the Actually Cute Plus-Size Maternity Clothes

2 months ago | nymag.com | Margaret Eby

Trust Me I Should Know Where someone with years of hard-won personal experience, and lots of trial and error, shares everything they’ve learned. Read more here. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Margaret Eby When I got pregnant in May last year, I was immediately faced with a series of fashion problems.
I Stand by My Pineapple-Mayonnaise Sandwich

Feb 5, 2025 | msn.com | Margaret Eby

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The most Philly restaurants in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX

Jan 30, 2025 | inquirer.com | Margaret Eby |Kiki Aranita

Philadelphia and New Orleans are two cities that have much in common — namely, deep affection for sandwiches and regularly pole-greasing to half-heartedly prevent people from climbing them. As the Eagles descend upon Louisiana for this year’s Super Bowl LIX, Philadelphians traveling south to watch the game might wonder where they should go. Here, a Philadelphian’s guide to eating through New Orleans. If you like Picnic, try Bacchanal.
Why in the World Does This Creepy Fork Exist?

Jan 22, 2025 | msn.com | Margaret Eby

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Stop Whatever You're Doing and Look at This Horrifying Fork

Jan 22, 2025 | foodandwine.com | Margaret Eby

Photo: Food & Wine / Getty Images It was my own fault that the Man Fork landed on my doorstep. I was talking too big a game at the soft opening of my friend’s Italian restaurant Scampi. I was loose and chatting with pals, a little too sure of myself. My friend, the chef-owner Liz Grothe, had selected forks for the restaurant and they had only three tines. They were elegant. They were graceful. And to my mind, they did not count as forks. "Anything with three prongs is a trident," I told the table.
The Best Cookbooks to Gift This Year

Dec 5, 2024 | nymag.com | Emma Wartzman |Margaret Eby |Alyse Whitney

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers In this article Baking cookbooks Vegetable-forward cookbooks Cookbooks for beginners Cookbooks for kids Regional cuisines Restaurant cookbooks For people in my life who like to cook, I have two go-to, never-fail gifts. One is a stellar pantry staple, and another is a cookbook.
A critic, a chef, and a food writer walk into a 23-course tasting menu

Nov 13, 2024 | inquirer.com | Kiki Aranita |Craig LaBan |Margaret Eby

Provenance is the most ambitious fine dining restaurant to open in Philly in a minute — and the most over-the-top French haute cuisine situation it’s seen in years. When it was announced, chef Nicholas Bazik, a veteran of the Philly scene, did little to tamp down expectations, declaring in an interview that Provenance would be a restaurant “that can’t be replicated anywhere with food that can’t be reproduced — because it shouldn’t be.
I'm a Trained Chef and I Love This Kitchen Utensil So Much, I Had to Buy Multiples

Oct 24, 2024 | foodandwine.com | Margaret Eby

Photo: lucentius / Getty Images Cutlery is many things to many people. Yes, it is a set of tools to dismantle your food and convey it in manageable pieces to your mouth, but it’s so much more than just functional. Cutlery is often a class indicator: Think about the number of forks you went through at the last fine dining experience you had, or a fully set formal table in the Victorian era, which would have included a salad knife, a fish fork, and a teaspoon meant for actually stirring tea.
Best Cake Delivery Nationwide

Oct 21, 2024 | nymag.com | Margaret Eby

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers Cake is a perfect gift for anyone in your life for basically any occasion, as long as that person likes and can eat cake. (There are plenty of vegan and gluten-free options for mail order, too.) It’s particularly nice when those recipients live too far away from you to just pop by with a home-baked treat. Birthday? Send them a cake. Engagement? Go ahead and ship a cake. Death in the family?