Cooks can feel like they’re in a foreign land when they stumble onto unfamiliar cooking terms. Consider the following definitions your cooking CliffsNotes, which should be taped inside your cupboard ...

Once you understand the basic cooking terms there’s no telling where your culinary curiosity may lead you! Ready for the next lesson? Knead – To mix dough with your hands, in a bread machine or in a ...

Enrique Gili is a writer covering environmental issues with a focus on food and the intersection between science, nature, and technology. No kitchen seems complete without a at least a few cookbooks ...

I’ve been writing about food for so long that sometimes I forget what it’s like to be a beginner. I don’t remember that recipes can seem like a foreign language to an inexperienced home cook. If you ...

I’d give myself a solid 3/10 in the kitchen. Homemade pasta is the only meal I can execute from scratch without messing up, and that’s likely attributed to the fact that I spent a few hours learning ...

If you're new to home cooking, the jargon can be confusing - here's a helpful guide. Photo / Getty Images Don’t know the difference between mirepoix and mise en place? Nikki Birrell decodes some ...

Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But she assumes the recipe direction to "cream" the ...

Americans have borrowed many favorite dishes and cooking methods from France, adopting the sometimes mystifying French terms that go along with them. Count on this glossary for help in pronouncing and ...

I've been developing recipes and writing healthful cookbooks since 1989, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's not to assume that the recipe reader has a lot of cooking experience. Gone are the ...