One-upmanship is the order of the day, and Weberites comb specialty butcher shops for the best prime filet, free-range chicken, and artisanally-raised pork loin.

Grilling is about as straightforward as it gets: You put some food over a fire and leave it there until it's done.

My officemate, Melissa Roberts, has a gift for combining flavors. "Why don't you do a root beer float, but with real beer?" Brilliant!

Hi. My name is Julia, and I'm addicted to bread baking.

Cruising Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue recently, in the Stuyvesant Heights section, I stopped by the Carolina Country Store to buy some sausage....

PR-savvy hemp growers have banded together like Haight St. musicians in a concerted marketing blitz.

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For many years now, I've relied on the pressure cooker for chicken soup, stock, and beans—but not much else.

I love salads. I enjoy creating them and eating them. In the test kitchen, salads have given me something of a reputation.

I'm lost without a flat-edged scraper, whether it is plastic and slightly flexible (pastry scraper) or metal with a handle at one end (bench knife). Aside from the intended jobs of scraping dough off a work surface and of cutting it into sections,...