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We Want This Wood-Fired Grill Apparatus for Chicken Deliciousness in the Great Outdoors

Cooking outside with a wood fire is one of those elemental things that just makes the entire experience all the more intoxicating. It’s part of the reason why we enjoy camping so much. Perhaps you’ve jerry-rigged pot stands, made a DIY rotisserie or built a three-zoned fire while cooking in the woods, but I doubt you’ve gone as far as this set up at Andrew Tarlow’s Achilles Heel in Brooklyn, where they do a Sunday night special called “Hell’s Chicken”. It sees spatchcocked birds cooked outdoors over live coals before being finished in cast iron. The apparatus is a mix of bricks, pots, a fire table, hanging hooks and interconnected metal pipes. It’s an inspiring arrangement for a backyard, to say the least, and one that could be elementally down-sized and reconstructed in the wild without too much difficulty if you’ve got enough campers in your crew to help shoulder the essentials (and eat the birds!). The Meat Show’s Nick Solares breaks it down with Achilles Heel chef Lee Derosiers (a former butcher). Get ready to drool…

The St. Patrick’s Day Collab Between The Irish Heather + Mello Has Our Name on It

If you're the sort to write off St. Patrick's Day celebrations due to stereotypical associations with the messy, rowdy, green-beer-binge-drinking brand of partying - not so fast!

We Can’t Get Enough of Nata’s Food-Inspired Candles

London-based makers of food-shaped candles, Nata, are dropping their new collection this week, on February 27th (tomorrow!) and they're even more decadent than ever...

Surrender to a Snow Day with This Big Bowl of Goodness

Hungry for in-doors activities to keep you amused during the coldest days of the winter season? This Tonkotsu Ramen 'little puzzle thing' seems like an apropos place to start.

We Want to Curl Up in Bed with This Cookbook (and a Good Meal, Obviously)

Dining well while comfortably tucked under the covers is all we want to do during the week-long post-holiday stretch, (at least) up until after the New Years dust has settled...Lo and behold: The Eating in Bed Cookbook.