Forge de Laguiole Corkscrews

Open the bottle in French.

Coop de Ville

If your neighbors are wary, a gift of fresh-laid eggs may change their minds. (By Alex Lash)

Cinco de Mayo, a.k.a. National Margarita Day

Eight ideas beyond the basic (perfect) margarita.

How Do They Get a Pear in a Bottle of Eau de Vie?

Is that fruit fake? (By Michele Foley)

The Rise of the Salt Tooth

The craze for salted sweets. (By Jessica Su)

10 Exotic Salts

Fun, fancy versions of the kitchen staple. (By Roxanne Webber)

Got Goiter?

Americans are eating more fancy salt— like kosher salt, sea salt, and fleur de sel — that don’t contain iodine, and less table salt, like Morton’s, which is typically fortified with iodine. (By Laura Neilson)

Father's Day Breakfast

Wake Dad on the right side of the bed.

Cubicle Cuisine

The perfect brown-bag lunch would be part store-bought, part easy-home-made, it wouldn’t take long to assemble the night before. Just like childhood lunch-box spreads, it would have multiple pieces, including snack and cookies.

Egg Magic

Tools for de-yolking, poaching, and beheading eggs. (By Louisa Chu)

Pepper Is the New Salt

Eight best bets for sneezing and seasoning. (By Heather Shouse)

From Scarface to Key Lime Pie

A culinary tour of seedy-but-cool Red Hook, Brooklyn (By Kara Zuaro)

Waiter, There's a Pig's Ear in My Soup

Your chef might be slipping you some offal. (By Jane Black)

Working Class Hero

Caviar in a lunchbox.

Nobody Expects Spanish Brandy

All that glitters is not Cognac or Armagnac. (By Jordan Mackay)