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    How to Cook With Umami Foods

    Learn how to cook umami foods using a few simple techniques that will improve your cooking and add more umami flavor to dishes.
    Umami Flavorr

    Understanding Umami Flavor With a Simple Taste Test

    The best way to understand what is umami flavor is to try it yourself. This taste test is an easy way to learn how to add more umami taste to your cooking.
    Primal Beef Cuts

    The Complete Guide to Beef Roasts

    Learn everything you need to know about beef roasts. From chuck roast to top round, learn how to pick and cook the best cut of beef for every occasion.
    What Is Umami

    Everything You Need to Know About Umami

    Learn about Umami, one of five universal basic tastes, its rich history, what it tastes like, and how to use it to make your food taste more delicious.
    Korean Chicken Wings

    Korean Chicken Wings

    These Korean chicken wings are full of ginger, garlic, and the deep umami flavors that make Korean BBQ so delicious. This baked chicken wing recipe only take a few minutes to prep, making this recipe perfect as a main course, party food, or late-night snack.
    Highlights from Umami's 2016

    Umami’s Best Stories and Recipes from 2016

    Here’s a quick rundown of the most delicious food we ate and interesting places we went during this past year at Umami.

    Bacon Bourbon BBQ Sauce

    Bacon Bourbon BBQ Sauce

    What more can you ask from a BBQ sauce recipe than combining bacon and bourbon into a smooth, tangy BBQ sauce with a touch of pepper on the finish?
    Black Garlic Risotto

    Black Garlic Risotto

    Black garlic risotto is an umami bomb full of deep rich flavors that come from the black garlic, porcini mushrooms, and aged parmesan. All three are umami rich ingredients that help the risotto recipe’s earthy flavors linger on your palate.
    Dashi and dried shiitake mushrooms

    Discovering Umami – A History of the Fifth Flavor

    The history of umami, what it is, where it comes from, what it tastes like, and how Umami was discovered is a fascinating journey wrapped up in culture and chemistry.

    Downtown Chicago on a fall evening

    At the Bar: What Umami is All About

    In this At the Bar column, I talk about Umami’s approach to storytelling, what our goals are, and how we’re working to become an essential publication for people interested in food and drink.

    Kayaking at the Channel Islands

    At the Bar: Why Umami

    I was coming back from kayaking around the Channel Islands recently, thinking about why I wanted to start Umami and what it should be about.