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Cooking schools have evolved to empower us to cook. Chef instructor Michele Glancey at the Chopping Block in Chicago demonstrates knife skills.

What’s cooking in 2015? Pickled eats, kitchen coaches, artisan foods

August 23, 2019 at 11:38 a.m.

Food forecasters and culinary prognosticators have spoken. Bored by too-sweet eats? Sour foods — pickled and fermented — are moving onto the plate to save our tastebuds in 2015, says...

Beer lovers, this kit comes with six glasses for as many beer styles: ale, bock, hefeweizen, lager, pilsner, stout.

Holiday party finds: Cocktail mixers, a beer tasting kit, fruity jerky

August 23, 2019 at 8:02 a.m.

A spicy, sweet fix Spice up holiday parties with pre-made cocktail mixers, perhaps the Ginger Bee or Spiced Old Fashioned from Cocktail Crate Craft Mixer in Queens, N.Y. The four...

Place the knife blade at the top of the squash, just inside the peel. Slide the knife downward, cutting away the peel. Turn and repeat.

Cooking tips and tricks to smooth the holiday

August 23, 2019 at 8:03 a.m.

Doing a lot of cooking over the holidays? We've gathered some tricks and tips from our reporting to help you with the little things. Peeling squash: Attack it like chefs...

Iron-and-pewter stag cocktail glasses bring a regal feel to sipping whiskey.

Gifts for the cook, the sipper, the baker, the latke maker

April 24, 2019 at 12:54 a.m.

*For the foodie who wants to play with flavors, there is this: Smoked Brown Sugar and its siblings, Chili Smoked Brown Sugar and Whiskey Smoked Brown Sugar. Your mom certainly...

At the White House, Sam Kass' work has ranged from helping establish a vegetable and herb garden to brewing up a few beers.

White House’s Sam Kass, head of Let’s Move initiative, moving to NYC

June 18, 2018 at 4:11 a.m.

Chef Sam Kass, the Chicago native who became the executive director of first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative and the Obama administration's senior policy adviser on nutrition, is leaving...

"Inside the Test Kitchen" by Tyler Florence takes the home cook by the hand, explaining how the recipes work, plus techniques and innovative twists.

Our 10 favorite cookbooks of the season

May 31, 2019 at 1:36 p.m.

'Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere' By Dorie Greenspan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40 Home bakers bored with overwrought, fondant-cloistered sweets will devour the tarts,...

Kitchen finds: Holiday helps for sweet treats

June 18, 2018 at 5:06 a.m.

Snowflake inspiration Let it snow lots of confectioners' sugar over little cakes made with a Snowflake Cakelet Pan from Williams-Sonoma. The cast aluminum pan by Nordic Ware has six patterns...

You could hurt yourself lifting some of the weighty new cookbooks, ranging from 4.2 pounds for "Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef" to 6.4 pounds for "Yucatan."

Trivia and tidbits offer peek inside season’s cookbooks

June 18, 2018 at 5:01 a.m.

Trivia, trends and more from the dozens (hundreds?) of cookbooks that came across our desks this year. Among the year's best-sellers Health and diet books are selling well among cookbooks,...

Susan Stone's apricot coconut delights are packed with fruit surrounded by a crispy dough, winning her an honorable mention.

Holiday Cookie Contest winners connect generations and neighbors

June 18, 2018 at 5:12 a.m.

A holiday cookie may begin with a mix of butter, sugar and flour. But its soul comes from the children, family and friends who shape, bake and embellish those ingredients...

An unexpected relish of roasted cranberries and grapes makes a fine partner to roasted meats or the cheese course. Food styling by Corrine Kozlak

Cranberries add tart accents beyond relish or jelly

August 23, 2019 at 8:02 a.m.

If your Thanksgiving table is like many others across the country, there may be strong opinions about how cranberries should appear at the meal — jellied from a can, whole...

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