Maggie Hennessy, Author at TASTE https://tastecooking.com/author/mhennessy/ An online magazine for today's home cook, reporting from the front lines of dinner. Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:28:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Are Contemporary Fridges the Problem, or Is It Us? https://tastecooking.com/are-contemporary-fridges-the-problem-or-is-it-us/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:56:23 +0000 https://tastecooking.com/?p=131732

Consumers ask more than ever of refrigerators, and manufacturers keep enabling.

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The Fishy Pride of Northern Michigan https://tastecooking.com/the-fishy-pride-of-northern-michigan/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?p=117916

Smoked white fish salad is an unlikely union of Scandinavian, Jewish, and Indigenous foodways of the Great Lakes.

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A New Dawn for Grandma Cooking https://tastecooking.com/a-new-dawn-for-grandma-cooking/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:00:21 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?p=117873

Behind every buzzy, viral internet recipe, there’s a grandma who was doing it first.

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Carlson’s Smoked Fish Spread https://tastecooking.com/recipes/carlsons-smoked-fish-spread/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:48:41 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?post_type=recipe&p=117918 Comprising equal parts smoked fish and cream cheese, Carlson’s smoked fish contains a few dribbles of half-and-half—“more for consistency,” Carlson notes. A …

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After a Luxurious 250 Years, Caviar Returns to Its Humble Roots https://tastecooking.com/after-a-luxurious-250-years-caviar-returns-to-its-humble-roots/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:00:40 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?p=100601

Caviar used to be a sustaining meal eaten by the working class. How did it come to be such a symbol of …

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Vanilla’s Savory Star Turn https://tastecooking.com/vanillas-savory-star-turn/ Tue, 01 May 2018 11:00:37 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?p=99582

We eat it in ice cream and birthday cakes so much we hardly notice it, but vanilla is massively underrated as a …

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Vanilla-Tinged Arrabbiata Sauce https://tastecooking.com/recipes/vanilla-tinged-arrabbiata-sauce/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:44:36 +0000 https://www.tastecooking.com/?post_type=recipe&p=99578

This recipe comes from Beth Nielsen, a third-generation owner of the Nielsen-Massey vanilla company in Chicago. I’ll admit I was exact-bordering-on-scant with …

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