Let the Grilling Begin!

Kick off the summer with these easy menus.

The Rise of the Salt Tooth

The craze for salted sweets.

Essentials for the Home Baker

Baking supplies that won’t collect dust.

Common Appliances, Uncommon Uses

Dust off your underused equipment and discover new applications.

Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

Candy's Black Sheep

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

How to Grill (Almost) Everything

Recipes to keep you fired up all summer long.

Cooking with Summer Ingredients

Recipes featuring the best warm-weather ingredients.

Sugar-Free Strawberry Sorbet

The sorbet’s the thing at this patisserie.


Where can I purchase grapefruit sorbet in northern new jersey? Edy’s used to have it in pints, but was bought out by J&J Snack Foods who no longer make that flavor. Has anyone seen it anywhere else? Thanks.

My buddy bought a frozen durian, and by the time some of it got to me, it had been frozen and thawed twice. At that point, most of the smell was gone, and it just had a hint of garbage aroma. I think it would be good as sort-of a...

I recently had a maple sorbet that was incredibly good and smooth. I have requested the recipe from the restaurant but have not heard back from them. Any ideas on how to make this – I can’t seem to find a recipe...

I have a whole bowl of watermelon leftover from dicing the rind for pickled watermelon rind. I would make sorbet but each time I do it turns solid as a rock. Any suggestions for how to improve the texture? I was thinking instead...

I used Alton Brown’s sorbet recipe on Food Network for the basis of this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/melon-sorbet-recipe/index.html I cut up a honeydew melon, squeezed a lemon, and grated fresh ginger. I...