Food

Farideh is in her kitchen whipping up a meal that will transport you to Olive Garden: creamy alfredo sauce folded into fettuccine pasta, a garden salad, and an anchovy garlic bread recipe that will change your life.

Andrés Galindo of Nene’s Deli Taqueria in Brooklyn, NYC is in the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen making Quesabirria Tacos.

Claudio Velez is The Tamale Guy. For 20 years he’s been visiting the bars of Chicago neighborhoods almost every night, selling his tamales to the nightlife scene.

Frank Pellegrino, Jr. of Rao’s in NYC shares a classic family recipe: Sunday Gravy.

Samantha Lamanna, executive chef at Brooklyn’s Cozy Royale, demonstrates how to make a meatloaf that everyone will want.

Chef Lucas Sin (Nice Day Chinese & Junzi Kitchen) and Chef Eric Sze (886) show off how they spend their nights after cooking all day.

On the streets of Bangalore, India, the mother & son duo behind Iyer Idly serve hundreds of idlis a day.

Calvin Eng of Bonnie’s restaurant in Brooklyn makes a fried milk sunday.

Steve Chu, chef and co-owner of Ekiben in Baltimore, is in the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen making a dish so popular in America, you may be eating it right now: General Tso’s Chicken.

Chef Widza Gustin, former MUNCHIES Test Kitchen intern, is back on her home turf applying a fresh concept to a classic Haitian dish: a banan pezé sandwich with fried red snapper and crunchy pikliz.

Chef Anita Shepherd from Anita’s Yogurt is in the MUNCHIES test kitchen making aborrajados, a Colombian street food snack that can be made vegan!

Dominique Ansel is his pastry workshop to show MUNCHIES how he prepares a classic European Christmas dessert: bûche de Noël, or a Yule log.