The Dinner Plan

Low-Stress Thanksgiving With Food Friends

Planning a Thanksgiving menu can feel overwhelming, but we're here to help! On this special episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman is joined by Sonya Sanford and

Postpartum Meals and Feeding New Parents With Clarissa Wei

Postpartum meal prep is all over the internet in the US, but in Taiwan, 65% of new moms check into a full-service postpartum hotel to recover after giving birth. When Cla

Adrianna Adarme’s Sweater-Weather Dinners

In A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook, Adrianna Adarme zeroes in on the right recipe for every mood: There are easy dinners for the midweek slump, quick family dinners for the night

How One-Pot Pasta Found Its Way to Your Table

In this episode of The Dinner Plan, cookbook author Nora Singley shares the story behind Martha Stewart's famous one-pot pasta, a pasta recipe that's been riffed on so ma

Fuchsia Dunlop’s Flavor Templates for Easy Weeknight Dinners

“A lot of my books have been very much about reflecting traditional Chinese cooking and trying to just report accurately on what I find in China,” Fuchsia Dunlop says in

How Jeanine Donofrio Got Her Love of Cooking Back

Jeanine Donofrio of Love and Lemons was in a cooking rut. Rushing through busy weeknight dinners made cooking so much less enjoyable, and she missed the days when she had

John Kanell: Preppy Kitchen’s Tips for Joyful Baking Every Day

John Kanell of Preppy Kitchen is practical about dinner; he’ll use two air fryers at once to get chicken on the table fast. But the former middle school teacher sees baki

What Mark Bittman Actually Makes for Dinner

Mark Bittman's latest cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegan, isn't meant to convince you to declare yourself a 24/7 vegan. Instead, Mark explains in this episode of The

How Kay Chun Plans a Week of Easy Dinners

Kay Chun has created numerous recipes for the New York Times, and worked in the test kitchens at Gourmet, Bon Appétit, and Food + Wine in addition to being a restaurant c

Leah Victoria’s Meal Prep for Real Life

Meal prep systems can feel like an all-or-nothing commitment, but Leah Victoria thinks there’s a reasonable way to prep some dinner building blocks without committing to

Even Yotam Ottolenghi Gets Nervous Before a Dinner Party

Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Simple Too, makes weeknight dinners even easier than the original book did. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Yotam admits that he feel

Sara Bradley’s Soup Season Tips

Two-time Top Chef finalist Sara Bradley loves to play with soup recipes, and in this episode of The Dinner Plan, she shares her favorite ways to dress up squash soup, tom

Meherwan Irani’s No. 1 Best Indian Cooking Tips in the World

As a teenager, Meherwan Irani would sneak out to eat street food against his mother’s wishes. These days the chef of Chai Pani and Boti Walla shares the flavors of his ch

Nik Sharma Breaks Down the Science Behind His Best Cooking Tricks

Nik Sharma wants home cooks to better understand food science; in this episode of The Dinner Plan, he shares some of the best cooking tips from his new book, Fundamentals

Swanky, Low-Stress Entertaining With Cortney LaCorte

Cortney LaCorte—also known as Cheese Gal—joins The Dinner Plan this week to share her best advice on how to make a cheese plate and all the ways she makes entertaining mo

For Olivia Tiedemann, Rich People Food Comes Down to the Right Moves

Olivia Tiedemann will be the first to tell you that working as a private chef isn't easy. You've gotta know what each guest likes and doesn't like, all the dietary restri

Pati Jinich Cooks the Bold Flavors of the Mexican Border

You may know Pati Jinich from her long-running series, Pati’s Mexican Table, or her previous cookbooks, but this fall you’ll be seeing a lot more of her, including her ne

Carla Lalli Makes Dinner the Best Part of a Bad Day

When Carla Lalli separated from her ex and moved part-time into a sublet after decades of marriage, the first thing she did was make dinner. “I cooked because it gives me

The High-Protein Vegetarian Dinners Grace Elkus Makes on Repeat

The high-protein vegetarian recipes in Grace Elkus's new cookbook, Protein-Packed Vegetarian, are exactly the kind of dinners I crave, packed with flavor and easy to make

Fresh Thai Cooking With Pim Techamuanvivit

I've been looking forward to chef Pim Techamuanvivit's Thai cookbook for years. It's an essential guide to cooking Thai food, including fresh curry pastes, grilled dishes