Rachel Thompson 
I have ruined exactly one spinach artichoke dip in my life. It was 2012, I was bringing it to a New Year’s Eve party of about thirty people, and by the time I pulled the dish out of my bag,…
For about three years straight, I was a Sabra loyalist. I’d grab two or three tubs every time I went to the grocery store, stack them in the fridge, and call it party prep. It was fast, reliable, and honestly?…
I have been bringing dips to parties for over a decade. Hummus, tzatziki, whipped feta, spinach artichoke — I have cycled through them all. But there is one dip that has never left my rotation, not once in ten years….
The Dip Table Tells You Everything You Need to Know I’ve been hosting game day parties for about a decade now, and somewhere along the way I stopped caring as much about the score and started paying more attention to the snack table. Specifically, I started watching what disappeared first. Because here’s the thing — … Read more
You know that moment at a party when you set down a dip and walk away, only to turn around two minutes later and find the bowl practically licked clean? That’s exactly what happens every single time I bring this southwest bean corn dip to a gathering. Every. Single. Time. I made it for a … Read more
It was a last-minute dinner party situation — you know the one. Friends arriving in an hour, fridge looking a little sad, and the snack table desperately needing something impressive. I spotted a bag of frozen peas and some edamame hanging out in the freezer and thought, “Why not?” Thirty minutes later, I was setting … Read more
Picture this: a state legislature, full of serious politicians with serious agendas, pauses to officially declare a warm, melty, gloriously processed cheese sauce as a matter of state pride. And the governor signs it. Into law. That actually happened —…
Picture this: it’s 1987, it’s Super Bowl Sunday, and somewhere in Ohio a family is setting out a glass dish filled with something they’ve never quite made before. Layers of beans, green stuff, sour cream, cheese. Nobody’s entirely sure what…
Before guacamole was cool, before spinach artichoke dip ruled every restaurant appetizer menu, and long before we were debating whether hummus counts as a “party dip,” there was clam dip. Briny, creamy, utterly retro clam dip. If you’ve ever wondered…
Picture this: it’s Super Bowl Sunday, someone sets a bowl of queso on the table, and within minutes the entire party has migrated toward it like moths to a flame. Nobody planned it. Nobody announced it. The dip just… did what dips do. If you’ve ever wondered why a simple bowl of something scoopable has … Read more
