For the easiest-ever version of shrimp cocktail that serves a crowd, we bypassed the traditional method of poaching and instead used the high heat of the broiler and a spice...
French tomato soup, with its acidic tomatoes, can pick up a metallic taste when cooked in seasoned cast iron. To avoid that, this soup is started in a cast-iron pan,...
Beef doesn’t always have to be a caveman dish. It can be delicate and accompanied by crunchy, colorful, healthful produce. Serving meat with a salad satisfies the carnivore in you...
Back when we were an English colony, this Virginia recipe would have begun with a young barnyard fowl—killed, plucked, eviscerated, and readied for the pot. I have some notion of...
Back when I was a junior food editor at Ladies’ Home Journal in New York, I created a party dish using three of my favorite Southern foods: chicken, rice, and...
When buying leeks for this recipe, look for ones that are no more than an inch (2.5 cm) wide. The younger leeks are, the more tender and sweet they are;...
Comfort soup, Chinese-style. Throughout Asia, chicken soup is regarded as a healing food, prepared for the sick and for pregnant women, much like the “Jewish penicillin” of the West.
A catch-of-the-day stew is a coastal favorite, no matter where the coast. This one has the characteristic flavors of the Mediterranean, though it bears a small similarity to gumbo. Serve...