About

What is Culinate?

We like to think that Culinate is more than just a website; it’s an ongoing conversation about learning to eat well. Our content — articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, food news, blog posts — helps people put real food at the center of their lives.

After all, food is fundamental. We make dozens of decisions about it every day: what to eat, where to buy it, how to prepare it. But there’s more to dinner than meets the eye.

Where does our food come from? How is it produced? What does the phrase “you are what you eat” mean in the 21st century?

Culinate is a place for eaters who are asking just these kinds of questions.

Making food choices that fuse health, community, and the environment isn’t always easy, but it’s effort well spent. At Culinate, we help you eat to your ideal.

We invite you to take your place at the table, and join our conversation.

Culinate Highlights

• What did you just eat for dinner? Fritter is the place to share your food with others in the Culinate community — or get ideas about what you might cook tonight. This isn’t the place for only fancy dinner-party food; we want to give and get ideas for eating day in and day out.
• We favor recipes that are simple and straightforward, made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. They come from a variety of places: cookbooks we’ve featured on the site; contributors we’ve hosted on the site; and from the Culinate Kitchen.
• Among our monthly columnists are kitchen luminary Deborah Madison; humorist and seasoned cook Matthew Amster-Burton; chef Kelly Myers; dietitian Catherine Bennett-Dunster; food blog aficionado Liz Crain; and master juggler Carrie Floyd, Culinate’s food editor. Let them entertain and enrich you.
• On our Dinner Guest Blog you’ll find a host of invited short-term and long-term bloggers — writing on everything from heirloom chocolate and organic apples to ubiquitous corn and pesky gophers.
• Our articles department is brimming with features, interviews, news, and how-tos.
• Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. We’ll point you to a sampling of the week’s content.
• Finally, we think the best way to stay abreast of Culinate content is through RSS. We hope we’ll be able to feed you (pun intended) the best content we can using RSS.

Read what others are saying about Culinate on Epicurious; on Action Without Borders’ Idealist blog; on the Washington Post blog; and on television personality Andrew Zimmern’s website.

Finally, and just for fun, check out The Culinate Dictionary.

Thanks for reading!