Cookies. They’re the simplest and most delicious treat. But I do have a problem with cookies masquerading as health food. Why on earth would you compromise what you’re really dying...
Frozen foods were given a boost of popularity in the 1950s when refrigerators with freezers became affordable enough for many households to have in-house, especially when Swanson introduced the frozen...
Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was a bestseller when it was released in the 1960s. One of her most famous recipes was the sophisticated French dish Beef...
A good, handmade croissant is a thing of wonder. It’s often said that the real test of a baker is the ability to make a croissant. Whereas bread succumbs to...
We really like to taste the crab in our crab cakes, especially the ones in miniature hors d’oeuvre form. But they usually have way more binder than meat, making them...
Back when we were an English colony, this Virginia recipe would have begun with a young barnyard fowl—killed, plucked, eviscerated, and readied for the pot. I have some notion of...
Back when I was a junior food editor at Ladies’ Home Journal in New York, I created a party dish using three of my favorite Southern foods: chicken, rice, and...
These extra-buttery, crispy-on-the-outside, soft-in-the-middle wonderfully addictive cookies are similar to the classic benne wafer, only larger. Serve them with tea or creamy coffee, or try them as sandwiches with a...