Cooking used to be a chore. Consider early man, who spent a good five hours running his prey to exhaustion, and then, panting over collapsed antelope, had to ponder Step Two. We’ve got it easy. Meat ...

One of the things that’s most important for a cook is to keep an open mind about food and constantly challenge the limitations of our perspectives and prejudices. That’s something I had to learn ...

“Most restaurant soups are soothing and boring,” says restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila, but, she says, you can always find an interesting soup at Govind Armstrong’s Table 8, where she recently ...

When the January chill sets in and you’re craving something warm, cozy, and low-effort, a pot of easy soup on the stove ...

4 cups fresh corn kernels, cut and scraped from 5 or 6 ears of corn, or about 2 10-ounce packages of frozen corn kernels, thawed Instructions: Combine corn and 1 cup of the milk in a blender. Puree at ...

What He Is Known For: Precisely executed, elegant cooking that favors excellent ingredients and attention to detail over flourishes. BACK IN 1984, when chef Günter Seeger first came to the U.S. from ...

Early fall often brings its share of hot weather. I like the idea of make-ahead dinners, meals that can be made in the cooler mornings and held until evening. This chilled soup was a big hit with my ...