Three Brews with a Flavor Kick

Seaweed, buckwheat, and extra hops make these beers some of our current faves

Kelpie Seaweed Ale This Scottish brew uses fresh bladder rack seaweed in their mash tun to infuse the barley with a peculiar hint of briny plant goodness. The seaweed provides background hints of salt and peat that play with dark chocolate in this full roast, dark malt. Kelpie Seaweed Ale sells from Williams Bros Brewing Co.’s online store. Morimoto Soba Ale Introduced in 2003, this …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: How to Make Kim Chee

Radish, chili pepper and garlic star in our video documenting the process of making Kim Chee

by Gregory Mitnick For this video we visited our friend Tim‘s grandma, Yu Um Chon, at her home in New York where she showed us how she makes Kim Chee. As one of dwindling numbers of Koreans who still make the spicy pickled staple themselves, she explained that everyone has their own recipe and walked us through hers (including the addition of artificial sweetener to …

Easy Tasty Magic

A line of wildly creative, beautifully packaged rubs, pastes, sprays and spices designed for kitchen alchemists

Laura Santtini’s Easy Tasty Magic collection of taste-enhancers stimulates the senses, both with refreshingly original flavor combos and beautifully clever approaches to packaging. The range includes an assortment of Santtini’s inventions—latterday rubs, alchemical larders, seasonal salts, elixirs, umami paste and food bling—each as creatively delicious as the next. Recently taking a break from the family business of running the London’s famed Santini restaurant, the successful …