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The Cuban-style cod fritters that Cindy Hutson serves at Cervezeria La Tropical pair great with friends, drinks, and watching a game. Battered with beer and served alongside an ale, they make a salty, satisfying snack.The cod fritters are also easy to make it home. Follow along with Chef Cindy in the video and use the…

Cindy Hutson put Mediterranean mussels on the menu at La Cerveceria Tropical in Miami because it's a crowd pleaser. Here's how to make it.

For some, the idea of pairing beer and macaroni and cheese and calling it “gourmet” might seem absurd. Think about college, for instance: Easy Mac and a can of something “lite” is the fuel of late-teen academia. In those days, the fact that mac and cheese was cheap, hearty and quick was just about all…

Boston-based burger blogger, chef, recipe developer and cookbook author Richard Chudy is one of our culinary heroes. His impressive mastery of all things fried, cheesy and dippable has expanded to his brand-new book, American Burger Revival: Brazen Recipes to Electrify a Timeless Classic. Cowritten with chef-author Samuel Monsour, winner of Boston Magazine’s “Best Burger” award, American Burger Revival…

Great beer deserves great food, so longtime food and beer writer (and author of The World Atlas of Beer) Stephen Beaumont took on the great and important task of gathering the greatest pairings around the world and publishing them in one convenient place: a beautifully photographed cookbook. Pick up a superb craft six-pack, bomber or…

Happy Craft Beer & Spirits Week! Our fridges are packed with incredible craft beer to celebrate this momentous week...and not much else. What are we, Martha Stewart? But where there’s a pantry, half a pack of bacon, a few potatoes and onions, some eggs and maybe the one green thing in your fridge, whatever that…

Cooking with wine is pretty common, and a lot of recipes you come across will call for some. But did you know you can cook with beer just as easily? You can! Beer can and totally should become a part of your cooking repertoire, particularly during Craft Beer & Spirits Week. Here are some tips…

Tired of suspiciously perky cooking show hosts? Us too. Enter Jonny Garrett, our champion at The Craft Beer Channel, which is much more important than the Sun-Dried Tomato Channel. Anyways, in honor of Germany's recent World Cup win, Garrett whips up three hot dog variations: balsamic beer onions, beer-spiked currywurst sauce and beer mustard, which…

If you can name a booze, we can tell you how to cook with it WHILE DRINKING IT without becoming so inebriated that you can no longer cook with it. Catch the drift? Whether it's beer, wine, sake, rum, that Grand Marnier you never use or even that super-obscure bottle of apple brandy that you…

Spring isn’t exactly cooperating here in the Northeast but elsewhere May marks the start of grills firing up all around the country. That's right, it's Grilling Month, and right around now you're probably looking for impressive beers to pair with your pro cookouts. The great thing is, no matter what style you’re a fan of,…

If you're going to sit down and watch a lengthy baseball game, grab a snack that will transport you right to the park without ever having to worry about leaving early to beat the traffic. Whip up some real nachos and stay through the handshakes.I use a combination of American and cheddar cheeses, lightly coated…

While Andrew Carmellini is renowned for his Italian cuisine, his second cookbook, American Flavor, focuses on the diversity of cuisine across the country. From the barbecue in his native Cleveland to the comfort food at his family's dinner table, American Flavor is a good reminder to always expand your repertoire. The inspiration for this dish came from the…

Paul Harrison is a Brooklyn-based recipe developer and professional whiskey fan who penned possibly the greatest recipe for taco meat, ever. We're running his recipes all week long, particularly since this latest batch was inspired by the abundance of Los Angeles-style Mexican food around his alma mater, USC, and shot in our own Test Kitchen. That is some…

It’s starting to feel like winter here in NYC and elsewhere in the north, and that means the heavier beers and heartier foods are about to grace our tables in festive indulgence. While you may immediately think of turkey as the quintessential fall food, we’re holding off for a week to bring you a recommendation…

If you're a fan of cooking with beer...only like, REALLY cooking with beer, the American Craft Beer Cookbook is a volume that should never leave your kitchen. Apply the beer-cooking method to favorites like meatballs, clams and epic burgers and infuse ordinary food with the greatest carbonated beverage ever created by man. Now grab a…

[caption id="attachment_70625" align="alignnone" width="700" ] René Stein has implemented a menu comprised entirely of items cooked with beer at Hospoda.[/caption] Chefs love to travel — for inspiration, to experience the cuisines of other cultures or just to get away from the heat of their own kitchens. When they return, we hit them with some questions…

One of the great things about drinking at a real pub — gastro or otherwise — is that the food will be perfect for whatever's in your pint glass. That's why we're loving cookbook author Rachael Lane's Great Pub Food, a tome packed with all things beefy, cheesy, fried, salty and otherwise perfect for the…

It's the perfect meat tenderizer, batter component, glaze, sauce, you name it — beer is a very versatile ingredient you should always have on-hand. Who are we kidding? You always have it on hand, and so do we. Here are 15 ways you can share it with your food for dinner tonight. One sip for…

There are some iconic foods here in New York: hot dogs on the street, giant slices of pizza, bagels with cream cheese. You know what we're not known for? Tacos. You can find tacos in NYC, but they're either (a) not very good, (b) kind of on the pricey side for what they are, or…

You've seared your meat perfectly and it's resting happily out of the skillet. Tantalizing juices, fat and crispy bits still remain. How to get them out...no, wait...how to combine them!? Deglaze that baby while it's still hot and get ready for sauce. Deglazing is a cooking technique in which an acidic liquid like beer, wine…

Savor NYC brought 76 craft brewers and 152 beers together under one roof Saturday night. Each beer offered was paired with bite created by a chef specifically for that beer. No offense to our nation’s capital (the event is usually held in D.C.), but… well okay, offense. New York is better, as demonstrated by the…

Pro pit master Troy Black, a regular on the Kansas City Barbeque Society circuit, teamed up with the editors of Southern Living magazine to pen All Fired Up, a cookbook that'll keep you busy at the grill all summer long. We all know that beer is an awesome steak marinade and that a little sugar…

We're so glad it was brought to our attention that today is National Beer Day. About as excited if not more than the time it was brought to our attention that it was National Meatball Day. Or Pie's Eve. But a beer holiday is special, like the entire month of October, plus St. Patty's Day,…

We trust our the success of our holiday meats to nobody but celebrity chefs. Well, and Mom and Grandma and stuff. But unless they can invent something better than lobster steak, we're going to have to go with David Burke for our Easter ham glaze this year.Burke combines the malty caramel flavor of Samuel Adams…

The rich, rustic dish combines sweet and tangy Granny Smith apples, savory cheddar cheese and creamy stout beer, buried in a butter-filled baguette. And, it’s a recipe so simple you won’t even need the luck of the Irish to prepare as the perfect dish for a St. Paddy’s Day gathering.

“Belgians need to stand up and say that the B stands for being the best!” says proud native chef Bart Vandaele. The former contestant on Season 10 of Top Chef attended culinary school at age 12, learning skills that would lead him to a stint in Belgium’s two Michelin-starred Restaurant Scholteshof and the role of…