Am I Drinking Too Much?

Keeping pace with the host.

How to Keep Guests Out of the Kitchen

And understand why they’re in there to begin with.

Before There Was EVOO ...

TV food personalities we miss.

Batali, High and Low

Mario Batali’s new cookbook, “Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style,” targets a different audience altogether.

How Did Cracker Jack Become Synonymous with Baseball?

A good jingle does it every time.

Mushrooms Will Save the World

And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

The Return of Punch

The big tail in a bowl makes a comeback.

Eat Your Lawn

A new wave of gardeners replants front yards with food.

Mole in the Mountains

A gastronomic adventure in Xalapa, Mexico.

Someone here was asking about a knife skills class in the Bay Area, and I just found one. Looks like she’s done classes before. Has anyone here taken one? I’d be tempted, except its the same day as Bay to Breakers,...

I want to develop dinner party menu skills... any advice from the seasoned experts? My current home is an eat in kitchen- not a formal dining room (which is used as a music room). I have a butlers pantry, but the oven is near the...

I have to agree that cooking volume is a different and not trivial to pick up skill set. I suspect the missions will be scaled down with Symon as the host and be rendered “impossible” in other ways.

in probably 6 months the other night and she is irritating but does being cooking to a large forum. Others that he finds just unwatchable are Paula Dean and the semi-homemade person. He does like watching the hosts that take it on...

to cook is that they believe it takes a lot of time, energy, and skill. Perhaps the first two are true – when you’re making something extravagant, or are hosting a dinner party. Cooking doesn’t have to be so...

Wow. She really is a bad host. But hosting is part learned skill and part natural good people skills... and for people who never learned past that “frat party stage” they really may mean well and simply be clueless. If...