Candied eggplant, parsnip cakes, tomato-berry tarts: Le Bernardin’s pastry chef explains how to use savory ingredients in sweet new ways.

This recipe is part of Thai Tea Pudding with Lime Caramel and Candied Cashews, from Susan Feniger's Street Food, Clarkson Potter, 2012.

This recipe is part of Thai Tea Pudding with Lime Caramel and Candied Cashews, from Susan Feniger's Street Food, Clarkson Potter, 2012.

Blasting cauliflower florets in a hot oven concentrates their natural sweetness, turning them into something akin to vegetable candy.

The evolution of our Christmas dinner is a story of robust, merry feasting, of wholesale hospitality reaching down the centuries.

A de luxe variation for the Lenten menu is frogs' legs from the frogland of America; these shipped by express the day after the night they are caught. The frogs are packed in kegs, the minimum order five pounds.

Hit the jack pot of all things good—the Jack Pot Beans, a product of Hitching Post Foods, Inc., Savannah, Georgia. These beans are the big, mealy limas, cooked Southern style with brown sugar.

Mighty like a rose and it is rose, a rose-petal honey made by a recipe taken from the famous Martha Washington cookbook, the original copy now owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

It's a little patch of heaven—gourmets' heaven, we mean—Bellows' Gourmets' Bazaar, 69 East Fifty-second Street, New York. Here we discovered little delicacies from the Continent not generally found in the States....