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It is not often that an ingredient that tastes like nothing captures the imagination of chefs like Thomas Keller and Ferran Adria and inspires scores of shops around the world [...]

Eating is one of life's most social activities, and yet preparing the foods we eat remains one of the most solitary and hidden. Restaurant chefs toil in basements and in [...]

Olivier Cheng's wedding delicacies bring all the senses into play. CAPTION(S): Photos: Light Bite: A few years ago, Olivier Cheng, the owner of Olivier Cheng Catering and Events in New [...]

Fish cakes in a modern American household are little more than a confection. Almost no one has a pound of leftover fish in their fridge waiting to be used. But [...]

A chef who writes a cookbook makes an implicit deal with the reader. I use the book as a branding tool; you get some insight about my approach to cooking. [...]

Children, the world's most blustery food critics, are not an easy group to please. These diners have no qualms about dismissing your perfectly conceived macaroni and cheese or your roasted [...]

TOAST The Story of a Boy's Hunger. By Nigel Slater. 238 pp. Gotham Books. $25. Nigel Slater's memoir begins with his mother -- a hapless and hopeless cook -- scraping [...]

For more than 30 years, Marcella Hazan's books have laid down the law on ingredients. ''Cooking that lacks salt, lacks flavor,'' she wrote. And: ''The very least you must ask [...]

Time to fill up your bedside table. This fall's food books are long on delicious words and short on ingredients. We've plucked our favorites from the racks and added a [...]

Very little of the world's great cooking takes place in restaurants. The fanatic home griller, the village bread baker, the man aging sopressata in his cellar, are all creating a [...]

After decades of mimicking the Europeans or experimenting with frantic oddities like ''Nuevo Latino'' cooking, American chefs have finally found their voice. They have done so by both following their [...]

Slocal / (slo kel) / adj. / the combination of ''slow,'' as in Slow Food, and ''local,'' as in ingredients that have traveled very little distance from field to table, [...]

If you are what you eat, then you are also what you buy to eat. And mostly what people buy is scrawled onto a grocery list, those ethereal scraps of [...]

Ma Thanegi, a Burmese writer in Yangon, Myanmar, leaned over her stove to peer out her apartment window. Outside, a man wearing a longyi, or sarong, was walking through the [...]

In New York there are two kinds of successful chefs. There are those who work their ways up through the kitchens of elite restaurants like Daniel and Jean-Georges and then [...]

Home-brewed espresso used to represent gourmet coffee-making in its highest form. The perfect cup was as much about the ritual of grinding the beans and tamping the coffee just so [...]

It was a cold and raw Sunday morning, and there were chores to do. Jennifer Small and Michael Yezzi -- a married couple in their mid-30's who look as if [...]

Women talk about their mothers -- a perfectionist, a fashion plate, a politician, a schizophrenic, a diva and a feminist.

The weeks leading up to our wedding were a frenzy of work and detail. Every moment was taken up with lists and duties. Except for the minute possibility that a [...]

'Are you too jet-lagged?'' Bill asked when he called my hotel. ''Oh, no, I'm fine,'' I lied. I had just arrived in Falset, a small town a couple of hours [...]

About a month ago, I was going to Spain, and I had a lot on my mind. But there was one thing that took priority: what to eat on the [...]

As a Christmas present last year, Timmie, Tad's sister, gave me six of her favorite recipes: among them, tabbouleh, corn chowder and her raspberry-almond vacherin. She must have read my [...]

A few months ago, when visiting Tad's parents, I noticed one of his mother's cookbooks lying on the kitchen counter. It was open to a recipe for slow-roasted turkey. The [...]

I held my grandmother's hand as the plane took off from New York. ''Your hands are cold!'' she said. ''These hands are made for pastry. Don't you like to fly? [...]

We arrived at Lupa in Greenwich Village late one Sunday afternoon. The sun was setting and a chill was sinking into the air like ink on paper. We had been [...]

'I feel like a 1940's housewife,'' Jennifer said over the phone, the sounds of a kitchen in the background. ''How so?'' I asked. ''We're at war, I'm flipping out, I'm [...]

In Raymond Carver's story ''A Small, Good Thing,'' a baker feeds warm rolls and coffee to a couple who have just lost their only child. ''You have to eat and [...]

By the time I reached my grandmother's house on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, I was dizzy with hunger. I had firmly resisted a Snickers bar at a [...]

Jeffrey Steingarten, the food writer for Vogue, had ignored a request for a dinner with Mr. Latte. They didn't exactly hit it off on the first try (something about Mr. [...]

Friends often turn to me with their food confessions. ''I didn't know what butter was until I went to college,'' a friend once told me. ''I still hold it against [...]

It was a summer holiday and Mr. Latte was in San Francisco for work. I was sad that he was gone, but he'd be back soon enough. I e-mailed my [...]

I met Jeffrey Steingarten, the food writer for Vogue, shortly after I moved to New York in 1997, when a colleague invited me out for a restaurant review. She had [...]

She had a look on her face that I recognized all too well. Pride and excitement veiled with anxiety. It's the ''Oh, my God, a food writer is coming to [...]

The Julia Child issue was gaining momentum, and my guilt was turning into paranoia: I called myself a food writer and yet I hadn't even studied Julia's work. Mr. Latte [...]

My mother likes to claim that I became a food writer because she used to feed me applesauce in my highchair while she watched Julia Child on TV. I don't [...]

Everything had been going deliciously well with Mr. Latte. We went to book parties and party parties, readings and movies. We were invited to dinners at friends' apartments. We ate [...]

You remember the ice cream sandwich of your childhood. Not a culinary masterpiece, you could argue, but a rather nifty concoction. That brown chocolate wafer, dimpled with holes, may seem [...]

We almost didn't make it past the first phone call. A friend had set us up. I thought she might have mentioned that I wrote about food. He called from [...]

Daniel Boulud was whisking and stirring and hustling around his kitchen like a short-order cook. He was making breakfast, lunch and dinner: scrambled eggs with bacon, a tuna sandwich and [...]

'Veal chops, one for each of us,'' I said over the phone. ''The fatter osso buco kind, or the ones like a pork chop?'' Sherry asked. ''The pork-chop cut,'' I [...]

Jemima dashed through the house carrying groceries. She was coming to cook dinner for my family for the week we were staying in Mexico. I was looking forward to spending [...]

I went to bed thinking of Dover sole and woke up pondering beets. This is normal, trust me. But lately it's reached a feverish pitch. I have wanted to cook [...]

Before my family left for Rome, I did the math. Over 11 days, with a lunch and a light dinner, each of us could taste approximately 55 dishes. We could [...]