Every chef and serious home cook knows that good knife skills are important for the safe and proper preparation of food. Knife skills teach us how to properly julienne or paysanne vegetables or other ingredients without taking the fingers of the...

One of the food-related trends in modern society is that of nutraceuticals, that is, people seeking foods that will enhance some physical characteristic or another that they value.  From foods to boost brain power to foods to aid weight loss, or...

Asians love to stuff things.  They love to stuff little things into bigger things, or roll leaves, dough or meat with all manner of minced vegetables, cheese and meat.  From Georgian hinkali to Philippine lumpia with Indian samosas and Tibetan manti...

No, not another promised exploration of the cuisines of the Levant States or of Saudi Arabia.  This essay is about the root vegetables eaten along the Silk Road.  That is onions, shallot, leek, garlic, carrot, rhubarb, beet, radish and turnip – and...

In sorting through old photos, I found this old postcard from Mongolia that I wanted to share. Despite its faded colors and scanned, fiber-paper texture its and interesting shot. Its from a time prior to the opening and democratization of the country...