Our favorite award-eligible stories from <i>The Takeout</i> this week<em></em>-September 2024-www.zdask.com

　　The internet operates on hyperspeed—as fast as it takes for your thumb to flick up your phone screen. It means you may have missed some of The Takeout’s award-eligible food and beverage writing. Fear not! We’ve rounded up some of our proudest pieces of reportage from this past week.

　　Raising Cane's serves a more-than-able chicken fingerI’d never heard of Raising Cane’s until I visited my girlfriend out in Las Vegas, where she lived…

　　Takeout contributor Dennis Lee argues Raising Cane’s serves the finest fast-food chicken fingers extant.

　　McDonald's Szechuan Sauce is America encapsulated in nugget-dipping formMartin Yan. Cecilia Chang. The fortune cookie. Panda Express’ Orange Chicken. All incontrovertibly…

　　Szechuan Sauce is the rage—especially if you’re a Rick & Morty devotee. But just how good is McDonald’s most famous/notorious nugget sauce?

　　California Pizza Kitchen's bake-at-home BBQ chicken pizza is frozen sophisticationThe state of California—outside the live-fire grilled beef tri-tip of Santa Maria—is not known for…

　　California Pizza Kitchen popularized the now-ubiquitous barbecue chicken pizza. How does its bake-at-home version fare? Our review.

　　Ask The Salty Waitress: What can I do when my friends behave like knuckleheads?Dear Salty,

　　Our resident restaurant-etiquette columnist on how to deal with “those people.”

　　This month in overturned trucks: breakfast sausage, cattle, 77,000 pounds of chicken sludgeThis Month In Overturned Trucks is The Takeout’s monthly roundup of overturned trucks spilling shit

　　Every month, we round-up the latest in trucks overturning shit on our roadways.

　　How do you revive soggy French fries?Those fries you picked up last night on the way home from the bar hit the spot—golden, crispy…

　　The worst part about French fries is they lose their crispiness in minutes. Is there any way to resuscitate soggy fries? We’ve got a few solutions.

　　My birthday wish: Eating my way through MexicoGuadalajara and Mexico City, we decided. This was a few months ago, and my boyfriend and I were…

　　Takeout staff writer Kate Bernot returned from a birthday trip through Mexico. She recounts her favorite food memories from her week-long expedition.

　　3 online cooking series to restore your faith in online cooking seriesBy decree of the National Consortium Of Cooking Video Producers, all videos published online today…

　　If Tasty-style overhead recipe videos make your head spin, may we offer three alternatives on YouTube that are the cinematic equivalent of a slow braise.

　　A master sommelier schools us in how to choose a wine glassWine glasses have confounded us for a while now. Why did champagne glasses change from little…

　　Different glass shapes, it turns out, can affect how your wine tastes. Takeout staff writer Gwen Ihnat sits down with master sommelier Alpana Singh to learn about its subtle differences.

　　A 60-second intro to Portuguese food“I’ve always said Portuguese food suffers from poor marketing,” says David Leite, memoirist, cook,…

　　In our recurring series, we head to Portugal for a crash course on its gorgeous, misunderstood cuisine.

　　Are brown eggs healthier and tastier than white eggs?If brown rice is better for you than white rice, and brown bread is better than white bread, then …

　　There’s this perception that brown eggs taste better, and are better for you, than white eggs. Is this true? We ask a number of eggs-perts. Sorry.

　　Could you homebrew beer in an Instant Pot?The recent revelation that a god among men New Jersey man used his Instant Pot to ferment wine drew

　　The Instant Pot can do everything, it seems. Is it possible to brew beer? Our resident beer columnist Kate Bernot digs around.

　　Don’t be the sad person who makes mug cakes from a mixI don’t know whether to praise or curse whoever created the mug cake. The dorm room special soon…

　　Mug cakes are supposed to be simple concoctions made from ingredients lying around the house. Gwen Ihnat discovers a box mix—does this defeat the point?

　　Ask The Salty Waitress: Should I tip in cash or on a card?Dear Salty,

　　Our most popular story this week: Our Salty Waitress answers whether servers prefer tips by cash or plastic.