The cook's year can be divided in two: tomato and not-tomato. But sometimes, even the best-intentioned, most locavore-crazy among us so crave a sweet, tart bite in our s...
Learn a basic formula, then change it up with ethnic flavor
Cooking smart means more than perfectly poaching an egg. It also means maximizing your kitchen time and dollar...
Versatile vegetable bursts with flavor
For a long time, I wouldn't touch cauliflower.
To me, raw cauliflower was a hunk of dense blandness.
My cauliflower conversion star...
On a trip to Dublin last summer, I spent a couple of hours at the charming Avoca Café, sipping tea and devouring an entire loaf of the place's signature seeded brown bre...
Lenten-season dinners
PARIS — Living in France has meant that my once passing fancy for all things that swim has exploded into a very big love. From picking out the tinie...
Many youths leaving faith
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — As the Catholic Church prepares to elect a new pope to guide it into the future, church leaders are struggling to keep young...
Can you keep a secret? No? Even better — because the secret to making English muffins is too good to keep to yourself.
Fans of “Downton Abbey” know all about secrets, of...
Tracing the history of the egg roll in America
CHICAGO — Born and bred in southern China, Fanny Go did not grow up eating egg rolls.
Family meals in her part of Guangdong...
It was the milk that first got my attention.
At the end of the week, there was still some left, a final cup or so sloshing around the bottom of the jug.
Then I started t...
Love is always sweeter when expressed with chocolate! Especially on Valentine's Day.
Yes, chocolate ... and the more ooey-gooey deeply chocolaty, the better. Still, ther...
