Claire Saffitz

For rave-worthy soups, skip the store-bought stock. You can extract a cleaner, stronger broth from a combination of water and several pantry ingredients. It's all about layering powerful flavor-enhancers that you probably already have on hand - bacon, tomato paste, herbs, peppercorns, a Parm rind, and, of course, kosher salt.

American Editor

David Sax

Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken skin fried in schmaltz. They're crispy and mixed with fried onions. I'm telling you, when you have it with chopped liver, it's the most incredible thing because you get this crunch and this surge of chicken flavor.

Canadian Journalist

Barry Humphries

I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

Australian Comedian

Matthew Walker

It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day.

English Scientist

Joel Kinnaman

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

Swedish Actor

Ali Wong

In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I've still never had a version as good.

American Actress

The word 'rind' is often used in cooking to refer to the outer layer that might be grated or zested for flavor.

Culinary Uses

'Rind' can describe a layer that is not meant to be eaten, such as on hard cheeses or certain melons.

Not Always Edible

The thickness of a rind can differ greatly, from the thin skin of an apple to the thick rind of a winter squash.

Thickness Varies

 any sort of macroscopic life. And on my quest to understand what the limits of this biology is, I typically focus on the deep sea. We can think of the earth as a battery. In the sub-surface, in those liquids and those gases, those chemicals are said to be reduced. There are a lot of electrons. On the very thin rind of the planet that we operate in,

Searching For Life in...

 to go for those kelp chips instead of maybe pork rinds from the convenience store. I find that introducing people to wild foods in their area is an excellent way to foster their connection to their food. And it's a way that fosters that connection over shame.

A flavorful field guide...

 forming dense, organized structures that grow on almost any surface. When you pad across a river bottom, touch the rind of an aged cheese, tend your garden soil, or brush your teeth, you're coming into contact with these invisible ecosystems.

The microbial jungles...

 after an hour I found on the forest floor the rinds and cause of durian fruit which I knew was the favorite food