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Recipes, stories, curated content, and leftovers from Host Collective and friends.

Joshua Burdette Joshua Burdette

Weeknight Coconut Chicken Curry

Serve with a cold dry cider or an IPA and you’ve got yourself a super quick weeknight comfort meal with minimal clean up.

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Joshua Burdette Joshua Burdette

A Table for Two?

Americans are less likely than ever to share a meal at home with guests, and when they do eat at home, it’s often on the couch around a coffee table. Where did all the dining rooms go?

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Mark Grapengater Mark Grapengater

Cooking Basics: Knives

You need a good set of knives, sure. But you only need, and I use that word loosely, three knives to get you through a cooking session: a chef’s, paring, and bread knife.

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Joshua Burdette Joshua Burdette

Feast of saint Robert Capon

Join Host Collective in the first ever Feast of St. Capon—a day of food, drinks, and readings from the works of Robert Farrar Capon.

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Joshua Burdette Joshua Burdette

A Poem About Bread

Margaret Atwood’s stunning poem about bread reminds us of the connection between death and life in what we eat.

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