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Sharpen your cooking skills, get a culinary degree, learn to write about food or feed your inner geek with these courses
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There are all kinds of breakfast foods and some translate to dinner more easily than others
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lack of space and college rules don’t have to put the kibosh on your first adventures in cooking as an independent young adult
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Eating it only buttered and salted would be like limiting Ben Franklin to a single pursuit of inquiry. Why squelch such potential greatness?
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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
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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
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Saving the Flavor of Fresh Herbs
Whether homegrown or store-bought, there are ways to preserve the flavor of fresh herbs for later
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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?
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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?
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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
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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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Inviting Writing: A Humble Kitchen
The cabinets squeak every time you shut them, the sink needs reglazing and the backsplash is made of cracking tile
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S’mores: More American Than Apple Pie
Marshmallows are from Egypt; chocolate is Mesoamerican. But Graham crackers were invented—or at least inspired—by a Connecticut Presbyterian minister
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Inviting Writing: What’s Your Relationship to Your Kitchen?
Tell us a true, original story. Is your kitchen your laboratory, your sanctuary, your prison, your playroom?
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Books for Dads Who Love to Cook (Or Want to Learn)
Our 21st century culture is encouraging men to dispense with old gender roles and crack out the pots and pans
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The File Inside the Cake: True Tales of Prison Escapes
Jailbirds really have tried to fly the coop by way of contraband—files, handsaws and even guns—hidden inside baked goods
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