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Who doesn't love a cucumber? Picklers, slicers, green or yellow, smooth or bumpy, thin- or thick-skinned, chubby Kirbys, little cornichons, English, Japanese, Persian. Good thing then that with the impending heat comes cucumber season. They peak with...

Passover celebrates the Hebrews' flight from Egypt to freedom more than 3,000 years ago. Jews around the world will remember that exodus at sundown March 25 with a ritual dinner, or Seder. And what's on the table will tell a story of its own, one based on...

PARIS — Living in France has meant that my once passing fancy for all things that swim has exploded into a very big love. From picking out the tiniest of bulots (sea snails) with needlelike tools and cracking open the claws of a fresh-caught...

Customers lined up outside Rheb's Candy early Monday, even before owner Wynn Harger opened the doors of the Southwest Baltimore shop his family has run for three generations. People, mostly men, crammed into the tiny, cottage-like store for much of the...

  I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions — I tend to set annual goals on my birthday in July instead — but I do always roll (and I mean roll) into January with a big case of food fatigue and a vow to end the crazy nonstop...

 It seems every year, the New Year is the time when so many of us make healthy eating resolutions. Of course, January is when memberships for weight-loss programs boom. But, inevitably, the resolve to diet withers, and we go back to scarfing and feeling...

A few months ago, I interviewed authors Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn for their book "Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing." It's a book that encourages home cooks to try their hand at making their own pancetta, coppa and prosciutto. Walking into...

Ingredients: Poached Farm Egg, Frisee, Arugula, Pickled Watermelon Radish, Pickled Ginger Vinaigrette, Parnip Chips, Sea Salt, and Chives. Pickled Ginger Vinaigrette: For the pickled ginger: 1 lb ginger, peeled and sliced 1 c water + some for...

Roast Beet & Blood Orange Crostini  INGREDIENT LIST:  Beets, blood oranges, goat cheese (local when available), pistachios, fresh oregano, aged balsamic vinegar, white wine vinegar, white beans, olive oil, salt, white pepper, parsley, oregano, thyme,...

If you want to understand Bestia, you should probably take a look at the cassoeula, a version of a traditional cabbage stew popular in Milan. At Alfredo de Gran San Bernardo, the Milanese businessmen's restaurant where I first tried the dish,...

Dinner doesn't get much simpler than a nice helping of sizzling shrimp with a touch of garlic and a sprinkling of hot pepper, and it comes together in less than half an hour. That's just enough time to slice a baguette (to soak up all those amazing...

Holiday traffic, gift shopping, partying…. It’s a relief to slow down with a good cookbook that reflects an idyllic life on a farm in northern Japan, where the cooking revolves around food that’s grown at home and prepared simply....