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This week’s Gastrokid Scamp of Approval goes to longtime blogger couple Smitten Kitchen for their awesome recipe for bday cake. It’s classic, iconic, platonic ideal of a two layer yellow cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. In this age of … Continue reading →

You go through life thinking you understand things. Like blueberries. And then you eat Southern California blueberries in mid July from a farmer who knows what they’re doing. And then you understand what a blueberry can be. The Nicholas Family … Continue reading →

…well, almost. Honestly, we couldn’t be more thrilled than by the Q and A that appears in the August issue of one of our very favorite magazines, Cookie. It’s pegged to our forthcoming cookbook and is on page 30 of … Continue reading →

Dear Gastromoms and dads. Sign up for our twitter feed for daily (or nearly daily, depending on our families’ schedules) for realtime dinnertime (or lunchtime or snack-time or restaurant-time or farmer’s market-time) reports from Gastrokid US and UK HQ. Admittedly … Continue reading →

To keep your kids happy in the kitchen and the dinner table, you’ve got to allow some wicked fun for yourself. My most recent culinary joy has come from prepping dinner with my awesome Japanese-made Henckels Santoku, which gets this … Continue reading →

When I was three I swallowed and choked on a piece of shell of a soft-boiled egg. No great drama, I survived just fine but it did sort of put me off soft-boiled eggs….soldiers or no soldiers. And I'd kind … Continue reading →