Opinions are strong, but science (and a few strong-willed home cooks) tackle the matter.

What exactly does it mean for food to be “modern”? Who better to ask than Anna Jones, the author of A Modern Way to Eat, A Modern Way to Cook, and most recently, The Modern Cook’s Year.

Defining backpacker food, which brings uncreative comfort for tourists flocking to Bangkok, Saigon, Angkor Wat, and points beyond.

How did the Mozzarepa—a sweet corn arepa filled with an arm’s length of melted mozzarella—become a staple of street fairs?

Roti canai, despite its Indian name, ingredients, and links to the Tamil people of Southern India, is a bread born in Malaysia.

This silky, starchy orzo, studded with mellow blue cheese, is a crash course in a pasta cooking technique that may sound a little familiar.

Soleil Ho isn’t like other restaurant critics. She doesn’t use a star system to rate restaurants. She doesn’t use terms like “up-and-coming” or “ethnic” or “addictive,” and there’s a reason for that.

Reassessing the pioneering food brand Newman’s Own and the more than $500 million donated to charity.

Add hojicha to cakes, puddings, ice cream, and jellies for an unmistakably smoky, nutty flavor.

Whether they’re canned or dried, make some space for beans and lentils on the grill. 

She’s brilliant, terrifying, and a master of Mexican cooking. The 96-year-old writer ends an 840-mile trip from Michoacán to San Antonio with a very special delivery, and some thoughts on a cook’s pickled nopales.

The New Yorker restaurant critic talks deadlines, linguistics, rent hikes, saving NYC, and why it was so very terrible to fish for your dinner (inside a fancy NYC restaurant, that is).

This Pennsylvania Dutch specialty lunch meat is far from the bland bologna of your middle-school lunch table. The sweet and tangy cult favorite is beloved by locals and Pennsylvania expats across the United States. Bless mail order.

It’s messy, it’s fishy, and it will give you disastrously bad breath, but it’s all worth it for this Italian anchovy snack.

Collard greens may have traveled to North America with European settlers, but the technique for cooking them comes from somewhere else.

There’s a reason the instant noodle brand is the star of so many noodle shops in Thailand.

After years of gloopy and chalky options, nondairy yogurt finally tastes…really good?

You might remember her cardamom-pistachio Swiss rolls from The Great British Baking Show, or the orange savarin that blew Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood away. But in her new book, Chetna Makan is moving from all the butter and sugar onto another topic: Healthy Indian.

How do you add mystery and intrigue to sliced fruit? With a drizzle of bracingly bitter Campari or subtly spiced Maraschino.

Vegetarian Reubens aren’t a replacement for meat. They’re a category of their own.

You may recognize it from wedding registries or the kitchen aisle at Target, but the timeless design is almost 100 years old.