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March 1, 2026 by
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Fans of Caroline Chambers’ cookbook What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking take note: Chambers recently announced that she is writing a follow up to this bestseller. This one is for people who are looking for time saving recipes. The title of the upcoming release is What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make it Fast. Chambers anticipates an August 11, 2026 release date.

How to reheat rotisserie chicken from The Kitchn

Shoppers at Costco treat the store’s rotisserie chicken with something akin to reverence, judging by the line that always seems to be queued up in front of the case. At only $4.99, it is one of the best bargains in the store. However, not everyone thinks these birds are the cat’s meow, and Costco is looking at two separate class-action lawsuits aimed at the rotisserie chicken. One of the suits is challenging the label of ‘preservative free’ because the chickens contain sodium phosphate and carrageenan. The second lawsuit alleges that Costco isn’t properly controlling Samonella contamination at its company-owned processing plant.

If you’ve been watching the newest season of Bridgerton, you may have noticed that food plays a prominent role, especially in this fourth season. There is a focus on the cadre of household staff working below stairs that makes the elaborate balls and garden fêtes happen – which of course involves cooking and presenting the food. The show’s designers have tried to keep displays historically accurate, albeit with some creative liberties. Jenny’s note: McCormick has a line of finishing sugars on the Bridgerton theme.

Another show at the intersection of food and television is ITV’s ‘The Heat’ – which Hannah Twiggs describes as “suspiciously like Love Island with knives.” The premise of this reality program is that ten chefs are ‘stranded’ in Barcelona where they all end up working in a Michelin-starred chef’s restaurant as he looks for the “next rising star.” The show doesn’t just focus on the usual competition in the kitchen, but also follows the chefs outside of the restaurant, which Twiggs says is like a “competition, soap opera, and dating show all at once.”

Grocery store unboxings are one of the latest viral TikTok trends. The focus of many videos is on how to wash or sanitize the produce, with influencers touting a number of methods including electronic purifiers. The Guardian’s Rachel Rasker asked food experts about which – if any – of the methods circulating on social media is worth the effort. You will not be shocked to learn that there is a lot of bad advice floating around the internet.

SBS Food has an interesting story about a new kind of menu that is meant to help people with autism when they are dining out. The menu style is called ‘Sensory Notes’ and uses images and descriptions in five different categories. The goal is to allow diners to have more information so they can order items that accommodate any food sensitivities they may have.

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  • Fyretigger  on  March 2, 2026

    Costco rotisserie chickens are my secret to pretty easy homemade chicken stock. The bags they are in now make it super easy to break down the birds. You just massage the heck out of them for a couple minutes while still in the bags. Then you pick through the contents and the flesh goes in one pile and everything else goes in the stock pot. I find I can go through 2 complete chickens in about 15 minutes. This plus a gallon ziploc of veggie scraps yields me about 1.5 gallons of really good stock.

  • eliza  on  March 2, 2026

    Thank you Fyretigger, that’s a great tip!

  • LeilaD  on  March 3, 2026

    OK, this is the first time I’ve stumbled on this apparently very well known cookbook (“What to Cook”), and I’m sure a thousand people have already left this review, but I’m gaping looking at the first page of recipes in the index.

    With that title, I expect store-cupboard ingredients and things I can make in ten minutes. I mean, some of these sound really good and like something I might order… at a restaurant when I have someone else to do the work and prep all those ingredients, not a weeknight after work when I’m looking at that eggplant and lamb in the fridge for the moussaka I promised to make and am just not feeling it! But I’d have to go to the store to buy ingredients for almost all of these recipes, which is more time and energy out of my night!

    “What to cook when I don’t feel like cooking” is “Oh, hey, I have shrimp defrosted, an extra lemon in the fridge, some butter, and an open bottle of white wine. Well, time to saute those suckers and dump it over rice.”

  • Rinshin  on  March 4, 2026

    A December 2025 Farm Forward report posits that the plant “consistently fails USDA salmonella safety standards,” and a Consumer Reports investigation in October 2025 named it one of the most contaminated poultry facilities in the country. Yikes!

    Apparently they failed every month.

  • mllamas  on  March 6, 2026

    I’ve enjoyed cooking quite a bit from What To Cook When … but find I’ve been gravitating toward the quickest recipes and ignoring the others. Glad to hear about her follow up cookbook!

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