The Culinate 8

Tried-and-true holiday food gifts

Make and give edible presents

• Features

  How to host a potluck — You still need a menu

• Features

  The seven-fishes feast — Or five, if that’s all you can handle

• Unexplained Bacon

  Looking sharp — How to buy the only knife you really need

• Our Table

  Rice and bean favorites — The ultimate budget meal

First Person

Tied tight

Does anybody wear aprons anymore?

• Features

  Spice trade — A brief history of cinnamon

• The Culinate Interview

  Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid — The travelers

• Front Burner

  Stocking up — The basics of making meat stock

• Features

  Recipe organizing — Get those ducks in a row

Culinate Kitchen

Pumpkin Chocolate Cookies

• Culinate Kitchen

  Yogurt Biscuits

• Our Table

  Rice and bean favorites — The ultimate budget meal

• Culinate Kitchen

  Toffee Brittle with Chocolate and Sea Salt

• Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook

  Rugelach