If beer is for the man relaxing after a long day, and wine is for a weekend girl’s night, whiskey was a drink for the gentlemen’s lounge...

When I fall into depression, the first thing out the window is my ability to feed myself. Something’s got to give...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, fifty pounds of potatoes to be sliced by 4:15, and something...

Nothing you put your heart into is guaranteed to love you back. That’s a truth in life that’s easy to accept, on the surface. It’s harder...

I bought my only cookbook in 2008, the same year my Aunt Sharon was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It was a sentimental purchase—a soul food...

I became smitten with pasta shapes when I watched my first chef roll out conch-like cavatelli with the blunt end of a butter knife. She had decided...

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right." – F. Scott FitzgeraldMarilyn Monroe bathed in 350 bottles of...

Click. Click. Click. “Moving on to pasta. So, for the bucatini, we’ll do it with garlic…”Click. “...and for the sauce, use a little chili flake. You don’t...

It’s sexy to be a chef right now. With TV shows and movies dedicated to the topic and the very concept of a “celebrity chef” becoming...

I spent my first full day as a private chef making French fries. The pile of russets nearly eclipsed the marble countertops. I had carefully peeled...

Becoming adept in the kitchen means becoming attuned to a different language. Not the obvious commands of “Sharp!” or “Behind!”...

Cooking for one is a uniquely solitary, self-reflective process. You have no one to impress (or disappoint) but yourself. Whether you wish you were impressing...

In 2014 I convinced myself that my office job was killing me. Five days a week, I reported to the same beige cubicle within a complex of beige cubicles in the fiefdom...

When Jimmy Coogan texts “we’re having four courses and cheese, come hungry,” I know it’s going to be an epic night...

When Dominique Crenn received the award for world’s best female chef, she immediately worked to strike a balance between....