David Tamarkin
Digital Director Emeritus
David joined Epicurious as its chief editor in 2015. His words and recipes have appeared in publications such as Bon Appetit, Healthyish, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Food Network Magazine, The Guardian, Wine & Spirits, Time Out New York, and Time Out Chicago, where for many years he was the food editor. David is the creator of COOK90 and the author of COOK90: The 30-Day Plan for Faster, Healthier, Happier Meals, which the New York Times called "excellent." He's also the co-author of More Mexican Every Day and the publisher of the short-lived, experimental cooking magazine Middlewest.
COOK90 2020, Week 1: Meal Plan and Grocery List
January 1st is coming. You're going to need groceries.
How to Stock a High-Vegetable, Medium-Fish, Low-Dairy Pantry
Or, to put it a different way, a pantry that will carry you through this year’s COOK90.
The Official Meal Plan of COOK90 2020
This year's month-long cooking challenge is heavy on vegetables, big on grains, and features weekend recipes from some of the best food writers in the world.
Pesto Pasta Frittata
This recipe assumes you have fresh or leftover cooked plain pasta in the fridge, but if you happen to magically have leftover pesto pasta, throw that in (no extra sauce required).
Coconut-Braised Chickpeas With Sweet Potatoes and Greens
This recipe picks up speed by calling for (slightly) wet greens. The water that clings to the leaves will help the greens cook; the fact that you don’t have to haul out the salad spinner is a time-saving bonus.
Kimchi Soup With Tofu and Clams
Two flavor powerhouses—bright, spicy kimchi and savory, briny clams—create a soup fast enough to make on even the most hectic weeknight.
The COOK90 2020 Starter Guide
Our January cooking challenge is back. And this year it'll not only improve your own personal cooking world—it will improve the world at large.
David Tamarkin's 9 Favorite Epicurious Recipes of 2019
The Epicurious Test Kitchen created over a hundred recipes this year. Our site director probably shouldn't pick favorites. But what do you want from him? He's human!
The Hanukkah Guide to Frying Without Fear
We’re commanded to eat doughnuts during the festival of lights. This year, we're going to make the doughnuts ourselves.
This Chard-Wrapped Fish Is My All-Star Recipe of 2019
The standout recipe of my year was just slightly laborious, which is exactly what I was looking for.
Inside Anthony Roth Costanzo's Gold-Dusted, Cake-Filled, High-Energy Kitchen
Here's what the counter-tenor and star of the opera Akhnaten uses to throw dinner parties (with gold-leafed cakes!) at home.
How to Turn Yesterday’s Soup Into Today’s Pasta Sauce
Make yesterday’s soup exciting again—and avoid Big Pot Fatigue in the process.
Why I'm Breaking Up With Butter
To be honest, we're still going to see each other on the weekends.
Olive Oil Apple Cake With Spiced Sugar
This dairy-free cake hits all the right autumnal notes: it’s earthy thanks to the olive oil, warm thanks to the spices.
Olive Oil Makes Better Cakes Than Butter, and This Recipe is Proof
Butter is great, but it's olive oil that really takes the…you know…
Tartine's New Book Shows That the Bakery Isn't What It Used to Be
And that is exactly the point.
42 Years Later, This Salad Spinner Is Finally Being Replaced
You know you have a problem when your salad spinner sounds like a car with a flat tire.
The Burger That Makes Cooking Burgers Okay Again
The affordable, fast, flame-grilled staple of home cooking has come under fire.
The Fast Cooking Of Summer Is Over. Let the Slow Late-Summer Cooking Begin!
The transition from summer to fall is the best cooking season of the year. It's not a coincidence that it's also the season when everything starts to slow down.