Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide (the French vacuum-packing technique). The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

Looking for some good holiday cooking ideas?

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep fry a turkey.

When cleaning out your refrigerator, local chef Jata Brown says to equate what you’re tossing with what you paid for it.

It started out as a simple diet experiment.

What’s the point of having Halloween anymore?

Do you blindly follow recipes, afraid that one change or misstep will ruin a dish?

There used to be a chain Tex-Mex restaurant near my home. It wasn’t the best food, but they did have this cool tortilla machine that would spit out rounds of dough on a conveyor belt, and then this lady would flatten them and cook them fresh for your table. My dream home definitely will have that contraption (and the tortilla lady) installed right next to the massive Krispy Kreme doughnut machine.

For the second year in a row, fans of open-and-pour pie mixes may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix. There’s a shortage.

Each morning, Ken Hayes puts two big squirts of honey in his coffee. He’s practically given up granulated sugar, so it’s a good thing he harvests his own honey.

An internationally known chef, who’s an expert in Colonial cooking, fired up meals in Thomas Jefferson’s kitchen on Tuesday, becoming the first to do so in at least 40 years.

I’ve always known that changing dietary habits is tough. But I’ve really been feeling it the last two weeks as my family is trying to cut out sugar.

My fellow salt lovers, stand guard. Big Brother is coming for our shakers.

Chris Mattera has two words for the backyard grillmaster:
“Slow down.“

Stay away from dangerous locations, making sure the grill is several feet away from your home, as well as children and pets.

Dropping 10 or 15 bucks on an average workday lunch?

Brown-bagging it usually consists of last night’s leftovers or boring bologna sandwiches. But nutritious, tasty and low-cost lunches from home can be easier and cheaper to make than you might think.

So, how do you spell the name of the Middle Eastern salad made with bulgur or cracked wheat, parsley and tomatoes (among other ingredients): tabouli or tabbouleh—or some other variation?

When it comes to cooking with fresh herbs, Shaun Mercer says you might make an occasional misstep and overzealously season a dish too strongly.

Whoever first called the hot dog a “poor man’s steak’‘ probably hadn’t had the $7 chili cheese dog at a Mets game.

It’s the first compound you learn in chemistry class. One molecule of sodium bonds with one molecule of chloride to form sodium chloride, NaCl — table salt.

RICHMOND — Annie Chalkley stood amid the morning mayhem that during Lent is the kitchen at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, eyed the cap and apron I carried and said without hesitation:

Our new best friends?

RICHMOND - Tuesday night is when Ginny Bowie really cooks.

So, you’ve put off choosing what to make for the Super Bowl, and now you’ve decided you absolutely must have chicken wings.

Two chili favorites.

“We breathe black and gold.“

—Bob Mack
Head of diehard Steelers fan clan

They like their tea sweet, their peanuts boiled and their grits gussied up.

Art Richey, Matt Lee, Jeff Vaughan and Will Foster got up at 5 a.m. in Atlanta Tuesday, and by 7 a.m., they were eating barbecue.

American consumers are on an eternal quest for digestive wellness.