Chip Brantley, author of the book The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot and co-founder of cookthink.com, explains what the difficult French filmmaker showed him...

We’ve encouraged our daughter to eat anything that pleases her. We never thought about how to set limits.

Germany’s nice and all, but there’s no place like home for greenmarkets, sweet corn, and sea scallops.

Before we leave Germany, there are parties and picnics to help make saying goodbye a little easier.

Living and working in a foreign country, you begin to understand the rituals that create community. One of them (no surprise) is lunch.

What to do when the flavor of summer is just too good to let go.

Squid is not just for calamari. In fact, if you get it fresh, it’s amazingly versatile, not to mention delicious.

A gentle reminder of Thailand in the skies of northern Germany.

Just being on another part of the earth’s surface can, it turns out, reinvigorate your sense of wonder.

Why this egg-less, bacon-less meal is just like pasta carbonara.