Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Fermentation Nation

A special post from Dale Dougherty: Most of the time when we think of fermentation, we think of the process that produces alcohol in beer or wine. I was making beer yesterday, producing a dark liquid from steeping grains. At the end, I added yeast which will convert those sugars to alcohol over the course […]

Favorite Food Posts from 2008

A lot of crafters I know don’t limit their creative endeavors to felt and glue–they also like to experiment in the kitchen. Here’s a roundup of my favorite food posts from the Craft blog in 2008. Rickroll Cake Sneak Attack HOW TO – Make Your Own Tofu HOW TO – Candied Citrus Peels Katamari Wedding […]

Chocolate Crackle Cookies

I had been organizing a cookie contest at work for the last few weeks. The contest took place last Thursday. We got 14 cookie entries from 12 different participants, which meant hundreds of cookies to eat. The winning entry was Chocolate Crackle cookies and they really blew the other cookies out of the water. I […]