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A simple mash of apples and pears makes a nice alternative to accompany latkes.

Slow-cooker corned beef to go with Hanukkah latkes

November 20, 2020 at 10:48 a.m.

Latkes are a traditional and wildly popular dish at Hanukkah, which begins at sundown Dec. 6, but chef Laura Frankel thinks something else, something more savory, is also needed to...

Whether novice or seasoned, any cook can have a cooking question or emergency when planning or making the Thanksgiving meal. Hotlines can help, and some are open on the holiday.

Thanksgiving hotlines offer help for holiday cooking woes

May 31, 2019 at 1:44 p.m.

Thanksgiving dinner help is just a mouse click or phone call away, thanks to a number of consumer hotlines and Web pages (social media, too) focusing on the holiday season....

Giada De Laurentiis, shown here during a Taste of Chicago appearance in 2010, returns to town this week to talk about her new book, "Happy Cooking."

Giada De Laurentiis talks about holidays and her new cookbook

June 16, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Giada De Laurentiis will be in the Chicago area Nov. 12 for two events related to her new cookbook, "Happy Cooking: Make Every Meal Count...Without Stressing Out" (Pam Krauss, $35)....

How to audition for MasterChef Junior’s casting call in Chicago

June 16, 2018 at 12:10 p.m.

"MasterChef Junior" is holding an open casting call in Chicago on Dec. 5, so I asked a Chicagoan who went through it last year -- and earned a spot on...

Grilled sweet potatoes with soy sauce, maple and bacon, from "Asian-American" by Dale Talde.

Don’t call it fusion: Young guard plays with Asian cooking traditions

May 31, 2019 at 1:44 p.m.

Chef Danny Bowien issues a warning early in "The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook," which weaves the story of his red-hot restaurants in San Francisco and New York with some of...

The Brunswick stew featured by the late Chicago chef Rufus Estes in his 1911 cookbook has been updated by cookbook author Nancie McDermott in "Southern Soups & Stews."

Pullman chef’s cookbook remembered in new ‘Jemima Code’

June 16, 2018 at 12:37 p.m.

Rufus Estes was an African-American chef living in Chicago who published his own cookbook in 1911 titled, "Good Things to Eat, As Suggested by Rufus." The book, "a collection of...

One caller told Butterball that the way to get the turkey to fit into a roasting pan is to smash it. Don't do that.

10 weirdest turkey questions posed to Butterball hotline

April 24, 2019 at 1:09 a.m.

Thanksgiving is a month away, and you just know some people are already fussing at the prospect of cooking up that bird. Think you have problems? Well, the folks at...

‘The Jemima Code’ celebrates 200 years of African-American cookbooks

May 31, 2019 at 1:44 p.m.

Toni Tipton-Martin was a food writer at the Los Angeles Times when she gazed at the cookbooks in the newspaper's test kitchen and wondered: "Where are all the black cooks?"...

Maple & Ash, now open in the Gold Coast, is helmed by, from left, managing partner Brian O'Connor, wine director Belinda Chang, Miranda Elliot and David Pisor.

Maple & Ash opens with steak, seafood, a Scotchy Scotch Scotch cocktail

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Steakhouses continue to be the trend for 2015: Maple & Ash, a traditional steakhouse with some tongue-in-cheek cocktails and twists on the usual wine list, is now open at 8...

The apple crisp from Ruth Reichl's "My Kitchen Year" illustrates her casual way with the 136 recipes she developed for the book.

Ruth Reichl’s book reveals how she cooked through pain of Gourmet folding

June 16, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

Ruth Reichl was editor-in-chief of Gourmet, arguably the most prestigious and influential food magazine in the U.S., when it abruptly folded in 2009. She headed to her kitchen and cooked...

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