Bon Appétit focuses on what's "now" in the world of food, drink, and entertaining, while still giving readers valuable cooking tools, tips, and most of all, recipes. This food lifestyle publication looks at life through the lens of food & cooking in, dining out, travel, entertainment, shopping and design.
FOR WOMEN WHO EAT, NOT LADIES WHO LUNCH.
Editor’s Letter
Gifts • Our hyper-specific holiday shopping guide
A Cut Above
Better by the Bucket
Feel the Buzz
Smooth Around the Edges
Ready for Your Mug Shot
Tinned for the Win
Give the Gift of Self-Care
Holidays on the Rocks
Suit Up
Eggs for Dinner
A condensed guide to cooking with: Maple Syrup
Shrimp Cocktail Season • This epic (but easy!) spread is all your holiday party needs
The Bagel Boom
Beyond the Big Apple • At Emerald City Bagels, mother-daughter team Deanna and Jackie Halcrow are making biscuit-worshipping Atlanta into a bagel destination
Top This, Schmear That • Here’s what our favorite bagel shops are spreading now
Dream Team • At Atomix in New York City, there are more collaborations than a Cardi B album. Husband and wife team JP and Ellia Park not only reimagine Korean food but also hand the mic over to young Korean creatives like themselves. Here they break down the details.
First Responder • Chef José Andrés shares what it really means to feed people, and how we can all do better
Strange Blooms • Why are we suddenly seeing this flower at every restaurant?
Roman Holiday • Why San Lorenzo is Rome’s must-visit neighborhood—and your ideal end-of-year getaway
SUPPLÌ & DEMAND
Cookies • Because the best gifts are the ones you can eat
COOKIE EXPERT TELLS ALL • Sarah Owens, who sends intricate seasonal cookies all across the country from her BK17 Bakery in NYC, fills us in on how to ship safely:
BAKE UP A STORM • Here’s what you’ll need to transform your kitchen into a cookie factory:
PACK YOUR COOKIES AND GO • When it comes to wrapping up cookies for long-distance shipping or schlepping, the more layers of packaging the better—we’re talking bags in a box in a bigger box. Here’s what to have on hand for the best insurance possible (you’ll be able to find almost everything you need at the Container Store or Michaels):
HOW TO THROW A Totally Delicious Holiday Party
Mains OF THE Day • This year’s holiday must-have: centerpiece-worthy dishes that you can set out—and more or less forget about. With easygoing help-yourself recipes, you can relax, graze, and go back for more
GRAVLAX SLICES
SO YOU WANNA ROAST DUCK • HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF THIS FANTASTIC (BUT MAYBE LESS FAMILIAR) BIRD
OUR Year IN Food • From DONUT PEACHES to NASI LEMAK to WAJU (it’s a thing), we bring you the BA FOOD YEARBOOK, a slightly obsessive and highly subjective look at the best things we ate and drank in 2018
ALL OF ATL • Growing up, I saw my hometown in black and white. That was before I came back, got lost, and found rambutan and bibimbap
THE LIST
Love Your Oven
sourcebook
Neil deGrasse Tyson • What’s your signature holiday breakfast?