In the past few years, we have seen a move away from rote recipes and toward the teaching of technique. Of course, cookbooks and food publications still provide ingredient lists with step-by-step ...

Acid can add balance and contrast in our cooking. Best-selling cookbook author and chef Samin Nosrat gets down to the fundamentals of flavor with four key elements: salt, fat, acid and heat. The book ...

Playing with salts and seasonings is a culinary passion, but I’m barely worth my NaCl compared to Mark Bitterman. Bitterman is a renowned selmelier (salt chef/expert) and a James Beard Award-winning ...

Have you been using salt wrong all your life? Are you marinating too long, thinking that it’s necessary for flavoring? Find out which cooking techniques are the subject of heated debates among ...