Snickerdoodles

The classic bake sale favorite: crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, and dusted with cinnamon.

Shortbread Lemon Bars

Classic cookie bars packed with mouth-puckering lemon flavor.

Rocky Road Bars

The classic sundae trio morphs into a bar cookie.

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes

These tender little cupcakes flecked with vanilla make seconds inevitable.

Fresh Out of the Oven

Outfit yourself with these nouveau baking supplies.

Coveted Vessels

Why you need hotel pans and Cambros.

Fancy Tonic Water Not Worth the Fancy Price

This week’s mission: fancy-pants imported tonic water and chips made from slow-baked fruit.

Birthday Butchery

Help! I’m not cut out for cake-cutting.

The Spice That Binds

A vanilla primer.

Not So Much for Cooking

The cookbooks that didn’t quite make the cut.

Whole Grains 101

How to cook them and why they’re worth the wait.

Candy's Black Sheep

Salty, medicinal black licorice won’t satisfy your sweet tooth, but you might like it anyway.

Down-Home Prosciutto

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of...

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

Eat Well and Save

Tips for spending less on good food.