In the past few years, we have seen a move away from rote recipes and toward the teaching of technique. Of course, cookbooks and food publications still provide ingredient lists with step-by-step ...

Acid can add balance and contrast in our cooking. Best-selling cookbook author and chef Samin Nosrat gets down to the fundamentals of flavor with four key elements: salt, fat, acid and heat. The book ...

Playing with salts and seasonings is a culinary passion, but I’m barely worth my NaCl compared to Mark Bitterman. Bitterman is a renowned selmelier (salt chef/expert) and a James Beard Award-winning ...