A new year invariably means new food-trend predictions. In the past, the culinary prognosticators have called for the year of the pie, doughnut, diminutive

In a season filled with rich, heavy foods and cloying sweets, I like to take a page from European cookbooks and bake a few

Everyone knows the holidays are steeped in culinary traditions, but who says you can’t steal from others? Pickled herring from Denmark, for example, defies

Like most caffeine addicts, I’m a bit fussy about my first, second and third cup of coffee of the day. Bold, crisp and scorching

I grew up in a largely Italian-American community outside of Pittsburgh where, at least once a week, I ate pasta. When Sundays rolled around,

Blame it on the cheap, tinny fruit cocktail that my elementary school cafeteria doled out, but until recently, I was a holdout on peaches.

If I asked you to think of an exotic delicacy, you might envision mounds of marbled white truffles, plump fugu fish, ruby red mangosteen

Whether you love to travel the globe or prefer to vacation a bit closer to home, chances are that if you enjoy cooking you’ve