Chefs and home cooks agree: celery root is an ugly–but tasty–vegetable. David Leite discovers some of the many uses for the Ugly Betty of the produce world.

Confused about fresh turkey, frozen turkey, kosher turkey, organic turkey, free-range turkey, and basted turkey? This turkey guide explains it all for you.

This pumpkin cake with maple cream cheese frosting, well, takes the cake. Canned pumpkin makes it easy, the cream cheese frosting makes it delicious.

Before our son, Graham, was born, I started daydreaming about his culinary education. His first course always seemed obvious: My firstborn would be a boob man from the start. Yes, I’d teach it myself, with equipment provided and fuel replenished by nature. Only it never occurred to me in all the hours spent obsessing over what foods he might prefer later, or whether he’d be unreasonably picky, that there might be a glitch—like being born unable to eat.

This year we said no presents. My mom and my sister. My aunt and my uncle. My cousins. It’s not that we’ve been taking humbug lessons. All year we give each other “presents.” When we …

The worst moment in a writer’s life is the day he receives his first rejection slip. The second worst is the day his first book is published.
The former because it only takes one person—one person—to …

I grew up in Fullerton, California, a continent away from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the city my mother’s side of the family calls home, and where she spent her first 30 years. This meant that while …

Hostess Sno Balls always remind me of Cheryl Swanson, our high school pep-squad leader who was fond of tight, hot-pink Angora sweaters. It was the late ’70s and the retro ’50s look was in, so …

It has recently come to my attention that I am a notorious, card-carrying bigot. My prejudice was so deeply rooted — and deeply hidden — that I thought I was a pretty accepting, politically correct …

Look down to change the radio station while driving west on Route N111 in central Portugal, and it’s possible to buzz by the tiny, nearly empty village of Tentúgal. Composed of  small cluster of streets, …

Last October, Sonja Profanter stood smiling in the crisp Alpine air, her cheeks as shiny and round as the local apples. Six foot tall in her socks, she was easily dwarfed by the jagged Dolomite …