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The New York Times doubles down on cooking videos by partnering with cooking creators, expanding its video lineup, exploring more brand collaborations, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside The New York Times’ Plan to Double Down on Cooking Videos (Exclusive)
The Times plans to work with cooking creators and its own staff to build up a video slate, beginning with a weekend baking series, and a video spinoff of The Veggie newsletter.

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

Bot App\'etit! Exploring how Robot Morphology Shapes Perceived Affordances via a Mise en Place Scenario in a VR Kitchen
Rachel Ringe, Leandra Thiele, Mihai Pomarlan, Nima Zargham, Robin Nolte, Lars Hurrelbrink, Rainer Malaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19082

Bot Appétit! Exploring how Robot Morphology Shapes Perceived Affordances via a Mise en Place Scenario in a VR Kitchen
This study explores which factors of the visual design of a robot may influence how humans would place it in a collaborative cooking scenario and how these features may influence task delegation. Human participants were placed in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment and asked to set up a kitchen for cooking alongside a robot companion while considering the robot's morphology. We collected multimodal data for the arrangements created by the participants, transcripts of their think-aloud as they we…

Inspired by a recent cooking post; one of my fave quotes from one of the Vorkosigan books:
“My dinner party," Miles grated. "It's just breaking up." And sinking. All souls feared lost. - A Civil Campaign

Dies geht auch mit Hühnerfiletstücklein vortrefflich, und mit Ssamjang statt Srirache (Chilipulver würd's wahrscheinlich auch tun). #nommention
https://…

Cumin Beef and Green Bean Stir-Fry Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Borrowing from both Hunan and Indo-Chinese cuisine, this speedy stir-fry features a generous amount of crushed cumin seeds for their aroma and earthy flavor. While ketchup is commonly used in Indo-Chinese cooking to provide tangy sweetness, sriracha does double duty, delivering a spicy kick without needing to reach for the chile powder. Green beans are ideal here for their mild sweetness and crunchy texture, but any quick-cooking vegetable will work in their place.

De taart staat in de oven:
NYT Cooking: Blueberry Crumb Cake
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015511-blueberry-crumb-cake?smid=ck-recipe-android-share
> It’s easy to find an occasion to serve this cake — b…

Blueberry Crumb Cake Recipe
It’s easy to find an occasion to serve this cake — breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or snacktime will do. The dominant flavor here is the berries. Don’t be tempted to increase the amount of walnuts in the topping — scarcity makes them even more delightful.

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

i should be forbidden from thinking this late at night what am i doing ena ur not cooking UR NOT COOKING

It's jam-making season! Check your local grocery store for the reduced-price, beat-up fruit. You'll thank me this winter.
#cooking #conserves

A Highly Clean Recipe Dataset with Ingredient States Annotation for State Probing Task
Mashiro Toyooka, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Yoko Yamakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17232 https://

A Highly Clean Recipe Dataset with Ingredient States Annotation for State Probing Task
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a vast amount of procedural texts, but they do not directly observe real-world phenomena. In the context of cooking recipes, this poses a challenge, as intermediate states of ingredients are often omitted, making it difficult for models to track ingredient states and understand recipes accurately. In this paper, we apply state probing, a method for evaluating a language model's understanding of the world, to the domain of cooking. We propose a new tas…

Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-statisticians-economy-figures

Then, gently puncture the yolk with a toothpick to keep it from exploding during cooking.

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multi-modal Information Between Reality and Videos
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, JooYoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10963

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multi-modal Information Between Reality and Videos
Videos offer rich audiovisual information that can support people in performing activities of daily living (ADLs), but they remain largely inaccessible to blind or low-vision (BLV) individuals. In cooking, BLV people often rely on non-visual cues, such as touch, taste, and smell, to navigate their environment, making it difficult to follow the predominantly audiovisual instructions found in video recipes. To address this problem, we introduce AROMA, an AI system that provides timely responses t…

For quick roasted veggies, preheat the oven with the baking sheet inside. That way, the baking sheet is already hot when you add the vegetables. Veggies cook faster, get crispier, and you don't even have to flip them mid-way. #Cooking #Hacks

Today’s cooking extravaganza: koosa wa waraq. Mexican gray squash stuffed with rice and lamb, grape leaves with the same mixture, and chicken.
Just made some chicken stock to cook these in.

Cooking with the sun seems apppropiate on #ShowYourStripesDay #ShowYourStripes

Just wondering how many barbeques are cooking right now...

I’m a sucker for that Cup & Crisp pepperoni.

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

Inspired by the ever-creative, innovative and connected guru / Yoda of #edtech, @… Alan Levine, I started by own Pinboard collection of bookmarks:
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The heat can't stop pizza night.
#pizza #cooking

First time cooking artichoke tonight. We nuked it which worked well but main finding is wotta lotta hassle for some wee bites. Our 16yo liked it and wants to have it again so it was a success in that respect!

@… für Rezepte ohne SEO ist https://cooked.wiki/ super.

Haha of course I mindlessly rubbed my eyes after mincing chili peppers
#food #cooking

Easy Chicken Tacos Recipe
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026853-easy-chicken-tacos

Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until later in 2025 (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/an…

Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
Android 16 arrives with a few new goodies, but the big changes are still cooking.

Sehr leiwandes Dressing (geht, wie immer, auch mit weniger Öl). #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027004-creamy-sesame-ginger-dressing

Creamy Sesame-Ginger Dressing Recipe
This is the recipe that inspired my book, “Good Things” (Random House, 2025), and my entire palate still puckers with pleasure every time I make it. After I’ve balanced and adjusted the flavors and dipped a bit of lettuce or cabbage into the dressing for a final taste, I always marvel at the way it manages to take every element — salt, acid, umami, fiery ginger, garlic and spice — right to the edge . . . without stepping over.

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

now we're cooking with renewable electricity

I remember the old trope of "In the future you'll have a whole meal in pill form!" and thinking that would be a bleak future devoid of the art of cooking and the joy of a delicious meal, but it's okay because the future is terrible in ways we didn't even imagine.

a recipe adjustment for my cheese / ham / egg toastie:
cooking it open in the panini press is good if i have good ham, but it requires more cleaning
so i put a butter / bread / cheese / ham / ham / cheese / bread / butter toastie as a single stack in the press
fry an egg while it is grilling
when they are done, split the toastie between the ham slices
slide in the fried egg and chilli sauce
and enjoy a post-pub uitsmijter toastie, with just an easy wipe cl…

Cooking up some chaos 🍳

Yesterday we cooked a Steak (Pork) n Ale Pie straight from Shire. #lotr #cooking #lotro

Quietschkäse daheim? Dies kann ich empfehlen: #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Halloumi With Corn, Cherry Tomatoes and Basil Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Seared cubes of halloumi get melty and soft on their insides and dark brown and a little crisp on the surface, making it almost impossible not to devour them all as they come out of the pan. But try to resist, because they’re even better tossed with a quick sauté of summer corn and tomatoes, seasoned with basil. Slivers of red onions, folded in raw at the end, add crunch and sweetness, while a squeeze of fresh lime makes everything tangy and fresh. Although this dish is at its most sublime m…

#Toronto apparently has a Sake Crisis. LCBO tells me the nearest bottle is 50km away, the rest marked back order. We suspect the true bottler is US based 😔
That's Utility Sake; for cooking I'm not keen on paying premium for the nice stuff, though it may come to that. Time to research local brands.

Just heard chef Luke Holder say “we have this saying: less time cooking it, more time sourcing it. Trying to find the right type of produce because we’re only middlemen between great producers and great guests.”
I’m gonna be chewing on that for a while, I think.

One of those almost look like an actual bao, the other ones look like shit. And I'm not showing the rest of the batch
Still compared to last time it's definitely progress
#food #cooking

When I was a wee
Lad, Mom lied: cooks improvise,
But not when baking.
#haiku #cooking

30-Minute Quinoa Tabouli #plantbased

30-Minute Quinoa Tabouli
Give this gluten-free quinoa tabouli made in 30 minutes a try for a quick and easy lunch perfect for summer cooking.

Simple yet effective #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025664-chilled-tofu-with-g…

Chilled Tofu With Gochujang Sauce Recipe (Gift Recipe)
This silken tofu, draped in a tangy, savory, chile-sweet gochujang sauce, is a warm weather epiphany: No cooking whatsoever. The sauce is essentially a chojang, a portmanteau of the Korean words for vinegar, cho, and for gochujang, the fiery fermented red chile paste, one of South Korea’s most delicious exports. Often served alongside salted boiled broccoli with sesame, this sauce is also excellent with tofu or on cold, crisp lettuce or hydrating cucumber and pepper. Make a double batch of th…

AI popups are the new cooking modals

ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
Han Yi, Yulu Pan, Feihong He, Xinyu Liu, Benjamin Zhang, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Gedas Bertasius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06277

ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
We present ExAct, a new video-language benchmark for expert-level understanding of skilled physical human activities. Our new benchmark contains 3521 expert-curated video question-answer pairs spanning 11 physical activities in 6 domains: Sports, Bike Repair, Cooking, Health, Music, and Dance. ExAct requires the correct answer to be selected from five carefully designed candidate options, thus necessitating a nuanced, fine-grained, expert-level understanding of physical human skills. Evaluating…

The first true garden products of the season - rhubarb jam and syrup! The second is the perfect ingredient for homemade soda/cocktails on a hot summer day. In a few years, when the plants are a bit older, we'll get much more.
#gardening #cooking

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Spent 5hrs cooking for #friends before leaving #Germany. Made #SouthIndian food they're unlikely to get in local #Indian restaurants: khaara baath, kesari baath, dose, chutney, potato-onion palya. 😋
Hadn't cooked that fare in 4 yrs but all came out well. More important, everyone had a good time. ☺️

Hunan Chicken (mit Gojuchang statt red pepper chilis), a feast of the hot and sour. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Hunan Chicken Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The cuisine of the Hunan province is one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines, but what sets it apart from the others is its use of bold hot and sour flavors. Chiles, vinegar and fermented black beans are staples in Hunan cuisine, and this recipe uses all three. Hunan chicken originated in China and made its way to the United States in the 1970s, where the flavor profile was adapted to please the American palate. Here, bite-size pieces of chicken are marinated in soy sauce, making them ten…

#3goodthings
1. Amazing son who's cooking my supper for the second night in a row.
2. Amazing husband @… who's always right by my side and pulling his weight and more come what may through a seemingly endless stream of minor and not so min…

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

AI popups are the new cooking modals

Reife Bananen in Stücke schneiden, einfrieren, pürieren -> sehr cremiges Bananeneis! #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/reci…

When it's too hot to turn on the oven, we use the barbecue instead.
#baking #cooking

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

TIL that the guy who invented chicken teriyaki is a) still alive, b) still cooking, c) in Seattle. And that it is considered Seattle’s signature cuisine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3ueYwf0MQ

This, too, can be done. (One third of the maple syrup is totally fine, and far less oil is needed than specified.) And extremely bone-healthy! #nommention
https:…

Lemon-Miso Tofu With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Inspired by Cantonese-style lemon chicken, this vegetarian version features crispy tofu and broccoli coated in a citrusy sweet and savory sauce. This lemon sauce is neither overly sweet nor tart, but has a soft umami hum thanks to the addition of miso paste. The simple technique of dusting the tofu with cornstarch before pan-frying delivers crispy tofu that is light yet robust enough to carry the sauce. (The tofu and broccoli can also be cooked in an air-fryer with comparable results; see Tip f…

AI popups are the new cooking modals

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsRaveForever
4hero:
🎵 Cooking Up Yah Brain
#4hero

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

I recommend a gin and tonic while cooking and probably another one at the table with this dish!