It’s time to stop shaming people for getting a snack in where they can.

At new Prospect Heights restaurant Sofreh, owner Nasim Alikhani is cooking with the Persian flavors and flair of her home kitchen.

Whether or not you know it as pâte à choux, this is the classic pastry you’ve been eating all along.

Powerful chemo drugs save lives, but they also kill taste in the process. What’s a patient to do?

A Disney-like Danish town in Southern California is obsessed with preserving the tradition of the aebleskiver in the U.S.

Thanks to Whoppers and Carnation Instant Breakfasts, we tend to associate malted milk powder with chocolate. But the flavor is starting to show up in some surprising places.

For many women in India's urban areas, kitty parties function as both an informal savings bank and a much-needed social outlet.

Fried shallots are a reliable pantry staple that can fix just about anything with a little bit of crunch.

For almost 100 years, Purity Foods has been the taste of home for Newfoundlanders, from hearty fishermen to kids at Christmas parties.

For years, bakers have turned up their noses at Crisco as a cheap imitation of butter. But because of its high melting point and high burning point, vegetable shortening can pull off some tricks that are hard to do with oil or butter.

Supper clubs serving breaded fish and strong cocktails in rural Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa are not your normal restaurant—but it’s also hard to say why until you visit one.

In Yunnan Province, China’s minorities are opening restaurants—some with dancing!—that trade on their historic stereotypes.

On the northeastern tip of Spain, all the best snacking happens before noon with a chilled bottle of vermouth.

If the green bean casserole is going to survive the next half century as a staple of the American table, we’re going to need to rethink it.

Assessing the cappuccino as a drink of refined luxury, or an everyman’s beverage ordered at the gas station or corner bodega.

Government cheese shows up in the punch lines of jokes and song lyrics, but to those who have actually lived on it, it’s both a cornerstone of survival and an object that inspires complicated tinges of nostalgia.

Due to changing tastes and governmental regulation, Japan’s famous yatai culture is disappearing.

Pandan’s unique tropical flavor lends itself well to coconut milk-based desserts—especially when there’s toasty bread to dip into it.

As early as the 1940s, Lawry’s seasoned salt had an important place in the spice racks of black families. But as home cooks become more health conscious and interested in fresh ingredients, are its days numbered?

It takes serious skill to manage a cooking fire. Why do so many cookbooks insist it’s simple?  

The ground pit of a cherry, known in Turkey as mahlep, can be hard to put a finger on, but quite a few Turkish pastries, ice creams, and drinks wouldn’t be the same without it.