It’s that time of year when my husband starts hinting that we haven’t had chili in a while and a nice bowl would sure taste good. He’s a fabulous cook and could certainly make a wonderful pot of chili ...

THERE’S an episode of the late-’90s PBS series “Baking With Julia” that features Berkeley-based pastry chef Alice Medrich (in some circles, fondly referred to as the Queen of Chocolate) and one of her ...

A slow-food friend of mine likes to drive guests crazy trying to guess just what it is -- maybe it’s a dissolved sliver of Spanish anchovy to deepen that super-meaty sauce, or some microscopically ...

A friend of mine, who happens to be an elementary school teacher, sent me a video the other day alongside a text that read: “Future food writer?” “For me, I really like corn,” says the boy, whose ...

Versions of corn casserole appeared on American tables after the Civil War, when fiddling with cornbread recipes became popular. Then, in the mid-20th century, the iconic brand Jiffy invented a recipe ...

Why, you may ask, go to the trouble of making tortillas at home when there are flour and corn tortillas aplenty on supermarket shelves? Because the aroma and taste of tortillas hot off the comal (iron ...