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Pantry Raid.

"I'm walking into a stranger's kitchen with no menu. Whatever's in their fridge becomes dinner. Tonight: a half-empty pantry on Tennyson and one very brave family of four." Free on YouTube — members cook along live with the kit.

Marisol Ortega Coastal Mexican · Tonight's host · 4.9 ★
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This week's classes

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Three salsas, one mortar

45 min · 142 cooking along

with Marisol Ortega

Tomorrow · 7 PM

A real Sunday sauce

90 min · 38 saved

with Eleanor M.

Wed · 6 PM

Ramen broth from scratch

2 hr · 64 saved

with Yuki Watanabe

Fri · 7 PM

Argentine parrilla, indoors

75 min · 91 saved

with Tomás Beltrán

Quick techniques

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Knife: the rock chop

Marisol Ortega

2 min · beginner

Folding fresh dough

Eleanor M.

4 min · intermediate

A real pan sauce

Sam Chen

3 min · beginner

Reverse-searing steak

Tomás Beltrán

6 min · intermediate

Dashi in 12 minutes

Yuki Watanabe

3 min · beginner

Recipes this week

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35 min

Aguachile verde

By Marisol

1 hr

Sunday ragu

By Eleanor

2 hr

Sourdough pizza

By Eleanor

90 min

Shoyu ramen

By Yuki

45 min

Chimichurri steak

By Tomás

25 min

Tlayudas, three salsas

By Marisol

30 min

Mapo tofu

By Sam

20 min

Jollof rice

By Adaeze

From the kitchen

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Issue 12

Profile · 8 min read

Marisol's second kitchen

She left a celebrated coastal kitchen in Puerto Escondido for a duplex in Denver. What changes when the ocean is fifteen hundred miles away?

Field notes

Essay · 6 min read

A case for the second helping

Eleanor on the dinners that built her — and why everything she cooks now was first cooked for nine people on a Tuesday.

Travelogue

Photo essay · 4 min

Yuki's stockpot, and what's in it

Forty-eight hours, three farmers' markets, one impossible kombu. A photo essay from a chef chasing a single broth.

How to

Guide · 5 min read

The host's thirty-minute window

What every chef wishes you'd do in the half hour before they arrive. (It's mostly: leave the counters alone.)