Bialetti Moka Express The eight-sided aluminium pot that has been brewing since 1933
Reviews
Tiptree Jam Museum A free barn museum at the Wilkin & Sons jam factory, with a four-legged chicken and a Gladstone letter
CafeCat Marshmallows A hand-drawn marshmallow cat that floats in your coffee, then gradually doesn't
CCCP Cook Book Sixty recipes, and many of the photographs are of food nobody could get
Rogue Creamery A Depression-era dairy co-op in southern Oregon that has twice made the best cheese in the world
Hon's BBQ Texas brisket technique, aimed at Hong Kong
Karafuneya Coffee The Kyoto kissaten that built a parfait for 25
Kawran Bazar Dhaka's wholesale market runs hardest at 2am — and the city has been trying to move it since 2024
Espro P7 French Press Double micro-mesh filter that actually keeps grit out of the cup
Finds
- Giant Perstorp Vinegar Bottle A five-metre concrete vinegar bottle, standing where Perstorp's vinegar-making began
- Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten An 1882 Nishi-Izu workshop that still smokes bonito over an open fire in a deep pit
- Drive Thru Index The same fast-food item, priced at every restaurant on a map
- Bialetti Moka Express The eight-sided aluminium pot that has been brewing since 1933
- Ice Cream Mango Tree A grafted mango variety bred for custardy fruit, shipped live
- Tiptree Jam Museum A free barn museum at the Wilkin & Sons jam factory in Essex
- AeroPress Premium Walnut The brewer rebuilt in glass, walnut, and steel instead of plastic
- Bakery Hoko Hong Kong egg tarts and milk tea in a bakery built from Hong Kong's housing estates
- US Food Price Monitor What the farmer got, what the wholesaler paid and what the supermarket advertised, every business day
- Circadian Tea Atelier Gyokuro cold-extracted for eighteen hours, poured into wine glasses
- The Mountain House A pump station, then a frontier saloon, now two Michelin-starred chefs under the redwoods
- Yakiniku Ushio Fukuoka's lean-wagyu yakiniku counter opens its first outpost outside Japan
- How Many Chip Bags Does It Take to Float A hundred potato chip bags, worn as a suit, are enough to float a person in a pool
- CafeCat Marshmallows A cat that floats in your coffee, then slowly doesn't
- Every Restaurant Has a Clock Somebody finally measured when hard-to-book tables actually appear
- AeroPress Manual Coffee Grinder A hand grinder that stows inside the brewer
- Cup of Joy Istanbul's stone walls, rebuilt in clay in Marylebone
- Jolly's Mill Pond History you are expected to taste
- CCCP Cook Book Sixty Soviet recipes, most of them aspirational
- Langosteria London Milanese seafood in the Old War Office
- Cookbooking: A Fan's Guide A history of the cookbook as an object, not as dinner
- Rogue Creamery A Depression-era dairy co-op that twice made the best cheese in the world
- Hon's BBQ Texas brisket technique, aimed at Hong Kong
- Chef Medeu An 1881 recipe book, cooked in the foothills above Almaty
- The Outer Rim Mid-century calm, wall-to-wall science fiction
- Karafuneya Coffee 150 parfait flavors, some built to feed 25 people
- Ododok AirPods motion sensors turned into a chew counter
- Matchaful Ritual Bar A Williamsburg room where the whisking is the point
- The Mushroom Shop A grocery that sells one kingdom and nothing else
- The Pickle Guys The last barrel on the Lower East Side
- Balmuda The Brew Pour-over, minus the hand
- Perrystead Dairy Cheese Vending Machine Cheese from a machine, in a garden, under the El
- Kawran Bazar A 2am fruit auction, and vendors who clear the tracks every time a train comes
- CheapFoodMap A map of meals under $10, with the prices actually checked
- A History of Menus is a Menu of History What America's oldest surviving restaurant menus reveal about class, gender, and technology
- iSi Gourmet Whip A refillable steel siphon that replaces disposable whipped-cream cans
- Spaghetti Donuts Rings of spaghetti twisted into a hand-held donut shape
- 3Doodler Candy 3D Pen A 3D pen that extrudes candy instead of plastic
- Jeju Black Pork A heritage-breed pig raised on a Korean island since the Goryeo dynasty
- World's Largest Tortilla A 3-meter tortilla sculpted with 450 scenes of Mexican history
- Sushi Chess Set A 3D-printed chess set where the pawns are wasabi and the rooks are tuna rolls
- Coleman Japan Dual Gas Burner Stove A camp burner that runs on convenience-store gas, not rare OD canisters
- Fieldbar Mini Bar A midcentury lunchbox with real cold-retention hardware inside
- Stemless Aerating Wine Glasses A built-in fountain that aerates wine as the glass fills
- Scotland's Artisan Cheese Trail A drivable route linking Scotland's small-batch cheesemakers, farm to farm
- DO Your Whisky Making Kit Botanicals and wood chips that 'age' a cheap bottle in days
- MeatStick V Duo Two cordless probes that predict doneness
- Roxon MBT3 BBQ Tool A folding grill multitool that fits six tools into 11 inches
- Space Gun Frother A ray-gun-shaped handheld milk frother that actually froths
- The 52-Year Simmering Noodle Soup A Bangkok beef noodle broth that has never stopped cooking since 1974
- Quercus A Relais & Châteaux biodynamic cattle ranch stay in Gay, Georgia
- Robert Mondavi Winery (reopened) Napa's Mondavi reopens after a 5-year renovation
- Why 3,000-year-old Egyptian honey is still edible Low water, low pH, antimicrobial peroxide — honey is its own preservative
- Snow Peak Field Barista Kettle Stainless and brass pour-over kettle with a removable wood handle
- Andrew's Honey Shop An Upper West Side honey shop with a working beehive in the front window
- Honey Spoon Variety Gift Set Twelve crystallized-honey spoons in four single-flower flavors
- Martha Stoumen Wines Membership Quarterly delivery from a low-intervention California winemaker
- Just Add Booze Frozen Cocktail Slushie Mix A powdered slushie base where the spirit you choose is the only liquid
- Noir (Yamazaki) Japan's bittersweet answer to Oreos, made when Mondelez moved Oreo production overseas
- Casabrews CM5418 Espresso Machine Sub-$200 espresso machine that punches well above its price
- Damnlines Live webcams of the queues outside viral New York food spots
- Espro P7 French Press Double micro-mesh filter that actually keeps grit out of the cup
- Ooni Koda 2 Max 24-inch gas pizza oven that can run two pies at different temperatures