Today's New York Times restaurant article is fantastic! See: You May Kiss the Chef’s Napkin Ring By FRANK BRUNI, who summarizes the w...

Muhamarra is a Turkish appetizer spread made from walnuts and red peppers. I consider it to be a nice alternate for hummus and baba ganoush:...

The BBC Online today published a pictorial treatment of a nutritious food -- locusts. To eat locusts may shock non-desert dwellers. But I re...

Here's a wonderful excerpt from an article on cauliflower: ... the Romanesco cauliflower is an heirloom and isn't to be confused wit...

For the first time, Miriam and Alice used their own money (allowance) to buy ice cream.

We had a marvelous Polish traditional Christmas dinner cooked by our friends Michal and Anuska. The first course was whitefish in aspic with...

News For Curious Cooks: Kuerle fragrant pears Again McGee has combined good news about food -- a type of pears being introduced to Americans...

In today's Guardian online is an article about Christmas Dinner: evidently an English Christmas dinner: " Top chefs' tips for...

After several recent conversations about brown sugar, I was happy to see a discussion about sugars today in a New York Times article about c...

In the not-so-distant future, all but traces of transfat will be banned in almost every food establishment in New York. The goal is safer ea...

In today's Guardian the cooks/food writers Ferran Adria, Heston Blumenthal, Thomas Keller and Harold McGee made a statement on "the...

Across the street from my elementary school was the Public Library. Around the library was a beautiful garden with two ornamental ponds wher...

A German tradition for the holidays is Nürn...

Harold McGee is author of On Food and Cooking and other wonderful books about what happens when you cook. He explains the inner workings of...

I learned something important about the needs of a food drive in a discussion last night. A doctor who works at a clinic for recipients of d...

Arugula. Borage. Chicory. Dandelion greens. Curly endive. Belgian endive. Mustard greens. Rapini. Radicchio. Salad frisée. Sorrel. Said the ...

The Soup website came up in a google search because I wanted to find an old Yiddish song my father told us about once: "Sunday potatoes...

Recently, I made totally classic brownies -- here's a photo of the ones that are still in the freezer. I also make totally classic blond...

Roasted potatoes can be a Thanksgiving dish, which this year, they were. They are good with any roast, though. At some grocery stores "...

Perhaps thinking about food and its pleasures is in itself selfish, when so many people on our planet are not well fed. Hunger has been a co...