Recipes

Deer in headlights

Is it Safe to Eat Roadkill?

Enough with the jokes already. Some people are serious about looking to the roadside for an alternative to mass-market meats

Steak tartare may not have been the best choice for this meal.

Inviting Writing: Sorry I Took Your Son

I was up to my elbows in raw ground beef, anchovy paste, capers and onions, and completely panicked

Nigel Slater, played by Freddie Highmore, digs into his stepmother's lemon meringue pie while his own trifle sits on the sidelines.

Toast, A Coming of Age Story Told Through Food

How will you be working with pumpkins in your kitchen this fall?

Five Ways to Cook With Pumpkin

It's time to think outside the pie crust and consider other ways you can put pumpkin on your table

Always beware of sharp knives.

Inviting Writing: Independence Won By Blood

My first meal alone in a new city was delayed due to an unexpected test of survival skills

As long as you're careful not to spill, the computer can get you a great culinary education.

An Online Food Education

Sharpen your cooking skills, get a culinary degree, learn to write about food or feed your inner geek with these courses

Chicken and waffles from Roscoe's

Eating Breakfast for Dinner

There are all kinds of breakfast foods and some translate to dinner more easily than others

A fried peanut butter and banana sandwich

Five Funky Ways to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich

Although peanut butter and jelly is the classic combination, there are plenty of other, very strange permutations for your lunchbox

Perhaps it's time to start teaching kids useful kitchen skills in home economics classes.

Is Home Economics Class Still Relevant?

"Too many Americans simply don't know how to cook," says a historian, and that has contributed to a health crisis

Hurricane Dean, a category 5 storm, rampaged through the Caribbean in 2007

Food For Emergency Situations

While it's hard to be the consummate kitchen maven in the face of disaster, it's still possible to manage food prep without a fully functional kitchen

The final product, a hopefully delicious one at that

The Sweet and Sour of Pickling

There is a reason, I discovered, that households of yore required at least one full-time homemaker to keep things running smoothly

Bedroom + kitchen + bathroom

How to Cook in the Dorm Room

Lack of space and college rules don't have to put the kibosh on your first adventures in cooking as an independent young adult

What to do with the corn from your local market?

Five Ways to Eat Fresh Corn

Eating it only buttered and salted would be like limiting Ben Franklin to a single pursuit of inquiry. Why squelch such potential greatness?

I love ketchup

What Ever Happened to Homemade Ketchup?

By the mid-1800s, some cookbooks listed as many as 20 recipes. Today the homogenized condiment is due for a paradigm shift

Will Leslie's kitchen forgive her for reckless abandonment?

Inviting Writing: Can a Kitchen Forgive?

We've grown apart, I know. But it's me, really, not you. I've been cheating on you with easy catches and have brought home some unsavory characters

Dried herbs

Saving the Flavor of Fresh Herbs

Whether homegrown or store-bought, there are ways to preserve the flavor of fresh herbs for later

Doughnut Burger

What Makes a Satan Sandwich?

If one were to go down to the crossroads at midnight and call the devil's name three times, what dish would appear in a poof of fire and brimstone?

Do you know the five spices that go into fish curry?

Inviting Writing: The Mother-in-Law’s Kitchen

My folks thought it was time I started thinking about marriage and therefore take the kitchen more seriously. Seriously? Why?

Richard Nixon's last meal at the White House. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen

How to Eat Like the President of the United States

See Kennedy's chowder, Eisenhower's vegetable soup, Reagan's jelly beans and Nixon's last White House meal

The versatile green bean.

Five Ways to Eat Green Beans

To prove their versatility, here are five out-of-the-ordinary ideas for cooking with green beans, each from a different world culture

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