Bryan Lowder

I’ve done it with everything from miso to crème fraîche.

Let the wisdom of the crowd help you cook.

My quest to find the true essence of the world's best two-ingredient cocktail.

Enjoy getting lost in a corn maze this fall? This guy did his job right.

I am finally standing up for myself.

“You know,” observed a recent dinner guest, glancing around our living room between sips of his digestif, “there are a lot of strong women in this...

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Ea ...

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Ea ...

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Each week, Slate’s television critic Willa Paskin will chat with assistant editor J. Bryan Lowder about the good, the bad, and the horrifying in American Horror Story: Freak Show. In this installment of the podcast, Lowder and Paskin talk about the inevitable fall of Elsa’s charm, why characters are staying alive instead of getting killed off, and t…

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Each week, Slate’s television critic Willa Paskin will chat with assistant editor J. Bryan Lowder about the good, the bad, and the horrifying in American Horror Story: Freak Show. In this installment of the podcast, Paskin and Lowder talk about the ridiculously anachronistic gay bar in Episode 5, Paskin’s tingling TV spidey sense, and why Season 4 s…

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Ea ...

As a member of Slate Plus, you’ll get access to exclusive podcasts—including our newly launched series about Season 4 of FX’s American Horror Story. Ea ...

A dirty truth, especially for would-be publishers of books on housecleaning: Despite the “innovations” in cleaning products that companies offer up on...

Stephen King knew it was risky to poke around in the ashes of the Overlook Hotel. “I like to think I’m still pretty good at what I do,” he writes in...

Evidence surfaced on Monday that Beyoncé may have cribbed dance moves from a Belgian choreographer, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, for her new music video ...

Evidence surfaced on Monday that Beyoncé may have cribbed dance moves from a Belgian choreographer, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, for her new music video ...

As Japan reels from Friday’s devastating earthquake andtsunami, other coastal areas in the Pacific—including Hawaii and the...

Each week on Tabatha’s Salon Takeover , severely coiffed...