Walk through the storage areas of any museum with a substantial Egyptian collection and you will find, among the pottery and the alabaster, vessels that once held food. Most of…
Ask what a country tastes like and you will usually get one answer, repeated by nearly everyone who lives there. National dishes are more than recipes; they are edible shorthand…
Few foods generate as much passionate disagreement as a handful of green leaves. Cilantro, known as fresh coriander in much of the world, is a staple of Mexican, Indian, Thai,…
A cooking vacation offers something a typical sightseeing trip doesn't: a genuine, hands-on skill to bring home, along with a much deeper understanding of a region's food culture than any…
Cooking a great steak at home feels like it should be simple, just meat and heat, and yet it's remarkably easy to end up with something gray, unevenly cooked, or…
Rice seems like the simplest thing in the world to cook, just rice and water, and yet it goes wrong constantly, turning out gummy, undercooked, or burnt on the bottom.…