Burning Questions

Almost no one remembers to buy tomato paste. It’s one of those pantry items that you take for granted, assuming that…

While potatoes are delicious in essentially any form, and at any time of year (or, really, any time of day), the…

Until I read the comments on our most recent Takeout fantasy food draft, I didn’t realize how much chocolate mint…

I was 18 years old when I first started buying beef to cook for myself. At that time, the butchery section of the…

Let’s just cut right to the chase: your spices aren’t fresh. In fact, thanks to how the international spice trade…

Good pots and pans tend to be expensive, and that’s especially true for copper cookware, which looks gorgeous, has a…

As people have become more interested in where their food comes from, the wine term “terroir” has seen a rise in…

We are less than a week away from the United States general election, friends, and I, for one, am terrified. Is it a…

No country in the world drinks more wine than the United States, and that seemingly unslakable thirst has made us…

Most of the chocolate we know and love consists of cocoa solids, sugar, and milk solids that are emulsified with…

Who among us has not rooted through the back of their pantry in search of baking soda, only to instead discover a…

After cooking dinner, putting away leftovers, cleaning the stove, and washing my plate, you stare at the bit of…

Some recipes specify kosher salt, or canning salt, or sea salt in their ingredients list. But when you’re stirring a…

What is grenadine, you ask? Perhaps the question should be where is grenadine, because the grenadine you’ve known…

Before I go any further, you need to know that baking powder and baking soda are not the same thing. I know that a…

It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when there were no chicken nuggets. I have no idea what parents fed…

The end times are upon us. Someday very soon, we might have to resort to digging up all the cans of beans we buried…

As cranky old folks love to remind us, milk comes from mammals, not almonds or any other kind of nut, because nuts…

Carrots grow underground and spend their entire lives being cradled by the loving arms of Mother Earth. And…

I know what you all are thinking, and the answer is no, Jell-O is not made from horses’ hooves. Any more questions?