Yahoo Lifestyle Our 5 Best Stories of 2024
Highlights from a year full of stories, including what an 85-year-old grandmother ate every day, the retelling of a Thanksgiving with artist James Henderson Boyd, what to do with all that summer fruit, and much more.
As the calendar draws to a close, I marvel at the amazing year we had at Simply Recipes. 2024 was the year of many firsts—The Freezies Awards, Simply Recipes Family Dinner Recipe Contest, and our entry into Apple News with two special issues (you'll need a subscription to access), Fall for Weeknight Dinners and The (Totally Easy) Holiday Baking Issue. We also published nearly 500 new recipes and over 1,000 stories, drawing hundreds of millions of readers to the site.
The biggest thanks to all the talented writers who published on Simply Recipes this year. I'm immensely proud that our recipes and stories continue providing nourishment and comfort, entertainment and delight, and food for thought. Here are the five stories that stuck out to me and resonated with our readers this year.
1. My 85-Year-Old Grandmother Ate 8 of These Every Day
Simply Recipes / Molly Adams
Writer Molly Adams reflects on her grandmother, "Every day, right before bed, she would treat herself to eight plump golden raisins that had been soaked in Beefeater Gin. She claimed it helped with her arthritis, but my hunch is she just liked the taste and the ritual."
READ THE STORY: My 85-Year-Old Grandmother Ate 8 of These Every Day
2. My Grandmother, the Goddess, and the Bunny on the Moon
Simply Recipes / Kat Lieu
Writer Kat Lieu remembers her Ah Ma's love and piggy-shaped mooncakes. " ... togetherness, along with good food and mooncakes, reminded us that we were home, wherever we were geographically, and that we were loved."
READ THE STORY: My Grandmother, the Goddess, and the Bunny on the Moon
3. Alice Levitt on the One Thanksgiving That Colored All Future Celebrations
Simply Recipes / Melissa Donne
Does your family have a story that's told and retold every Thanksgiving? Whether it ends in a good belly laugh, warm hugs, or everyone awkwardly backing out of the room, it's what reconnects and shapes our families in meaningful ways. Writer Alice Levitt retells her family's Thanksgiving in 1993, featuring a whole fish, artist James Henderson Boyd in a kilt, and a Russian.
READ THE STORY: Alice Levitt on the One Thanksgiving That Colored All Future Celebrations
4. Come On Over: How To Feed the People You Love This Holiday Season
I'm allergic to the word "entertaining," but I love having people over for whatever my family is already having for dinner and simply making more of it. That means I serve crowd-friendly, quick, and easy recipes I can pull off on a busy weeknight. Here's a collection of those recipes, plus smart tips for having people over from three of my favorite cookbook authors.
READ THE STORY: Come on Over: How To Feed the People You Love This Holiday Season
5. Our Favorite Retro Summer Baking Recipes
Simply Recipes / Photo by Andrew Bui / Food Styling by Tiffany Schleigh
Senior Editor Laurel Randolph on making the most of summer fruit: "While I can eat plenty of it out-of-hand, even I can't consume the sheer amount of ripe fruit before it is past its prime. And that's simply not allowed—I will not let summer fruit go bad.
"The solution: a little summer baking. Nothing so complicated as a homemade pie—I'm talking about back-pocket recipes that home cooks have relied on summer after summer, year after year, and some for hundreds of years."
READ THE STORY: Easier Than Pie: Summer Baking Recipes
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