The latest from across Serious Eats:

• From Required Eating:

  How to Reduce Your Food Costs in 60 Minutes a Week

  Cheap Healthy Good is a blog about "making delicious eats at a reasonable cost,"...

• From Recipes:

  Essentials: Floating Island

  For the last year or two I’ve been obsessed with the idea of floating...

• From Required Eating:

  Another Kind of Chicken Fight

  Chicken fights usually involve a swimming pool, two teams, sitting on shoulders and...

• From Recipes:

  The Cartoon Kitchen: Asparagus with Black Beans

  This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on...

• From Required Eating:

  This Weekend in 'New York Times' Food News

  Fish Tale: Oregon salmon fishermen turn to new work as fish disappear. Daredevil...

• From Required Eating:

  Sunday Brunch: Pancetta-Wrapped Asparagus from Mario Batali's Mother's Day Menu

  I asked Mario for any recommendations on what to cook for Mother's Day this...

• From Required Eating:

  Sampler Platter: From the Serious Eats Team

  Items you may have missed from the Serious Eats universe ... Cocktail connoisseur Paul...