What's the Difference Between Brown Sugars?

What’s the difference between the various types of brown sugar (light, dark, Demerara, turbinado, and muscovado)?

I have been curious about some alternatives for refined white sugar. After a search of the boards, I found an extensive conversation about the topic (blew “raw” sugar right out the water!). But I wonder if anyone has...

10 Exotic Sweeteners

Go beyond white sugar.

Sour Cherry and Green Tea Granité

Tart and sweet combine in this simple yet refined version of granité.

In Defense of Cheap Liquor

Does your expensive bottle of choice stand up to the lime and sugar test?

The Minimalist's Dessert

Cookbook author and confectioner Alice Medrich talks about her love of simple, artisanal sweets.

To See a World in a Grain of Dry Ice

Does Chef Heston Blumenthal really find perfection?

Dean Karnazes's Extreme Meal Plan

Running 1,300 miles makes you very hungry.

Kitchen Confessional

Reading Nigel Slater’s diaries.

10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Help along your New Year’s resolution.

Salty, Dark, Distinctive

All soy sauces are not created equal.

The Raw Deal

As raw food goes commercial, purists cry foul.

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood.

Crispy, molasses-tinged cookies with strawberries and crème fraîche.