I wanted to make some cornbread muffins this weeked but read that if my corn meal is older than 4 months, it may have gone rancid...I’d hate to make an entire batch of muffins only to find that the corn meal is bad...Is...

I bought some walnut oil for the first time. I tried a little bit on a spoon and it has sort of a mildly astringent aftertaste. I know that walnut oil can go rancid pretty easily, but since I never tried it before, I’m not...

Rancid oil has a decidedly bitter aftertaste to it. Taste a drop and you will be able to tell. Learned this when my pasta was bitter one evening long ago, it was the olive oil sittin in the jar on the counter in partial sunlight...

sesame seed

Chocolate Nut Cake

Food products containing nuts are rancid so often, people are used to it.

bacon

Lye-treated, gelatinous dried fish that’s more bland than vile.

When aged, this gentle calf of a cheese turns into a gnarly old bull.

Pine nuts are little packets of beauty. They’re versatile, too; they’re a key ingredient in classic pesto Genovese, and they’re also great in salads, with sauteed vegetables, in couscous, and in pastas.

The new quarterly installment of The Art of Eating is out, and it features a synapse-searing profile of wines from France’s Jura vineyards.

Storing olive oil so that it remains fresh, retains flavor, and doesn’t go rancid is important, especially with special and expensive oils that are used only occasionally.

Edible hickory nuts are hard to find and hard to crack, but the effort leads to culinary rewards.

Pretty close to perfect.

The normally respectable St. Petersburg Times runs a rather poorly considered list.