Bitterness is the only taste that is universally rejected at first and widely sought out later, which makes it the most interesting of the five and the hardest to use…
The single most useful thing to know is that heat and flavour are independent. A very hot chilli can taste of almost nothing, and a mild one can carry an…
The common feature is that nobody is doing anything for most of the duration. The work is at the beginning and the end, and in between the food is changing…
Almost every quirk of cooking with pulses follows from one fact: they are dried on purpose, so everything you do is a negotiation about putting water back. Here are fifteen.…
The aim is not to be adventurous for its own sake. It is to end up with the thing the place is good at, which is usually not the thing…
The question worth asking about any spoon dish is what would be lost with a fork, and the answer is almost always the same: the ratio between the liquid and…