Sweet Potatoes or Yams?
A classic dish would be candied yams, which is really made with sweet potatoes. Did you know that what we call yams are really sweet potatoes? It’s an accident that we ended up this way to begin with.

Pears Poached in Beaujolais
No matter how packed full of turkey, potatoes and stuffing our bellies become, everyone I know has an uncanny ability to make wiggle room for dessert at the end of Thanksgiving dinner. I mean, how could you not?

More Than You Want to Know About Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce can be controversial. In fact, often enough the issue cannot be resolved unless a family can agree to have two types of cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving dinner – fresh and canned.

The Great Stuffing Debate!
First of all, is it called stuffing or dressing? And do most people actually prefer it cooked in the bird?

Pumpkin Pie vs. Pecan Pie
Which is your favorite pie, pumpkin or pecan? Maybe strike a compromise with Pumpkin Pecan Pie? Are you one of those no-pie people?

Macarons are the new cupcakes
Cupcakes are hot. Pop culture has elevated cupcakes from kindergarten birthday party to wedding cake status in a few short years. Cupcakes are fun, tasty and easily decorated, with a superb frosting-to-cake ratio.

The World's Most Perfect Food and Wine Pairings (Part One): Champagne and Popcorn
So you’ve got yourself a bottle of Krug. Congratulations, you have one of the finest bottles of Champagne on the planet. Oh, what’s that? You’re inviting me over to share it with you?

Magic Mushrooms
When you think of MSG, greasy Chinese take out might come to mind. As an artificial flavor enhancer, it seems to make everything in its path taste unnaturally good, but unfortunately, is not necessarily good for you.

Sci-Fi Toaster
How nice would it be to actually SEE when your toast is done?

Raw Tacos
There’s no meat in the fridge, no canned salmon in the cabinet, not even a packet of spam. What’s a woman to feed a carnivorous husband? So I found a recipe for raw tacos!

Is Your Beer or Wine Vegetarian?
Nothing compliments a delicious vegetarian meal better than a glass of wine or beer- except when your wine or beer is not vegetarian.

Breadfruit Coconut Curry
I have a deep love of potatoes and breadfruit is quite like the potato – starchy, bland and high in carbs – but ready and able to take on any flavor.

The Importance of Pie Crust
Let’s talk about pie crust. I realize it’s still a couple weeks before Thanksgiving- the day I most associate with eating pies- but it’s never too early to talk about the importance of pie crust.

Savoring Thanksgiving
The trick-or-treaters are barely gone. Jack o’ lanterns still adorn many a front doorstep. And I’m sure we are not the only household with a bowl full of candy leftover.

The World's Most Neglected Wines (Part One): Australian Riesling
In its recent heyday as the critical darling of the wine world, Aussie Shiraz was unstoppable. Massive scores, massive wines, massive prices. How the mighty fall.

A Chance to go to the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Normally I don’t enter a ton of cooking contests, mostly because I don’t make the time, but PAMA Liqueur sent us an email about about “Cooking with PAMA Contest” with the Grand Prize winner receiving a trip for 2 to the 2010 FOOD & WINE...

Pairing Pumpkin Beer with Seasonal Foods
Pumpkin beer: beer geeks love it or hate it. “Liquid pumpkin pie”, say the detractors: sweet and overly-spiced- hardly beer at all. However, many take pumpkin beer seriously.

What do You Spread on Toast
Are you a peanut butter person? Cream cheese? Honey? Strictly butter and jam? Vegemite or Marmite? Or are you a decadent Nuttella lover?

Time to Belly Up to the Bar with Erik Hakkinen
Once again, the Foodista team will belly up to the bar for another Drinking Lesson, this time the teacher is Erik Hakkinen, a bartender at Seattle’s infamous Zig Zag Cafe , the same bar you will also find legendary Murray Stenson shaking things up.

Perfect Scrambled Eggs
I just learned how to make scrambled eggs after 15 years of cooking. I love eggs, an over easy/soft-boiled egg may be my most favorite food over anything else.

Locavore and Foodista
Are you passionate about local foods? Discovering new things at your farmer’s market? Like to support your local farmers and food producers? Then this is perfect for you.

Moorish Badenjan Dip
It’s funny how our tastebuds change as we age. Not too long ago, eggplant was on my shortlist of foods I didn’t like, now it seems I can’t get enough of it.

Salmon with Chanterelles and Slow Cooked Tomatoes
Even though it’s mid-October, I am still picking tomatoes off my plants.

Celebrating Chanterelles
Here in the Northwest we are blessed with a variety of wild fungi. It only takes a little bit of rain after the summer heat to suddenly ignite the growth of one of my favorite wild mushrooms; the delicious, velvety chanterelle.

Remedies for Your Butternut Squash Addiction
When it comes to seasonal fall and winter squash, there is always one that seems to take center stage on restaurant menus, glossy food magazines and in premade food products.

I Don't Like Red Wine With Cheese
Did I get your attention? Good. Just trying to be deliberately provocative.

Fabulous Flu Fighting Foods
‘Tis the season for flu. We thought it apropos to share with you some fabulous flu fighting foods (say that ten times fast), as well as tips to staying healthy in general.

Porcini Ravioli With Sage Brown Butter
Porcini mushrooms are now in season, so we went to our favorite forager at the farmers market yesterday and picked up some of these forest beauties.

Introducing Foodista Labs
Here at Foodista we’ve got a million ideas. Some great ideas don’t quite make it live on the site. To help bring some of these ideas to the light, today we are introducing Foodista Labs.

Them is Good Eats
If Americans came with user-care manuals, the section on feeding would be reduced to a sidebar.

5 Ways to Get Out of a Food Rut
Lets face get stuck it, we all in food ruts. Seared salmon on top of mixed greens has been my fast and healthy go-to dinner for far too long.

Eating Local in the Northwest
Open your fridge. Can you tell the exact history of where one item came from? Eating local doesn’t seem like a hard challenge until you start thinking about it.

How Does One Suddenly Go Vegan
You don’t have to be vegan to enjoy new flavor profiles. Here are a couple recipes to try, you may even be surprised how good going vegan can be!

My Mother’s Applesauce
Possibly the most nostalgic smell from my childhood would have to be homemade applesauce.

Slow Cooked Goat Shank With Alubia Criollo Beans
I’m not a picky eater by any means, but for some reason I’ve never exclaimed, “Gee, I could really go for some goat tonight!” as I do with, say, lamb.

Foodista is Best Selling Blog on the Kindle
Foodista Blog is now the #1 blog in Food & Wine on the Amazon.com Kindle!

Veggie Beef Tahini Pita
Most people say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

10 Foods to Eat Right Now
Here are 10 must-eat foods that are ripe right now with 10 recipes to inspire your next grocery trip.

Pork Belly with Wild Huckleberry Sauce
This treat is rich, juicy and over the top indulgent; absolutely perfect for a weekend all to ourselves.

Clams With Spanish Sausage
Clams with Spanish Sausage a very tasty treat.

Grilled Caesar Salad
Grilling lettuce usually isn’t the first thing to come to mind when putting together your barbecue menu. But grilled Romaine lettuce is worth giving a go.

Japanese Fried Chicken
Move over, Colonel Sanders, there’s a new fried chicken in town! Actually, it’s not new at all but it may be new to you. Chicken Karaage (or simply Karaage) is Japanese fried chicken.