Have you ever spent time in a restaurant kitchen? Bill Buford's Heat relates the experience so vividly that I feel like I have. Line cooks..
If you are new to dinner parties, this is the way to jump in. This step-by-step guide will walk you from "Hmmm.... I am free..
I'm going to talk about something a little serious today. It is not the most pleasant thing, but it is an unfortunate reality of frequent..
I talk a lot about Epicurious here. It is an incredible resource for home cooks. So imagine how honored I was to meet Tanya Steel,..
I recently had the opportunity to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Epicurious. Have you heard of The Devil Wears Prada? Or wondered what the editor of..
The most important question to ask when buying a cookbook is not "does it have lots of pretty pictures." This is not a coffee table..
Not all recipes are created equal. If you want to get anything (general knowledge or a delicious dinner) out of a recipe, you need to..
A friend once told me she loved to try new recipes. But that was the only way she cooked. She would make something once, but..
When I shop at the market, I have a quasi compulsive need to check out as many vendors as possible before making my purchases. I..
Having only taken a few, highly specific ethnic cooking courses, reading recipes is actually the main way that I have learned how to cook. In..
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