Remember the broccoli we had when we were kids that not only was weirdly mushy but also tasted like grass? Well, it turns out that broccoli really shouldn't taste like that, and that not that many ...

The original Roman gourmet Apicius got straight to the heart of the pleasure we derive from food when he said, "We eat first with our eyes" back in the first century A.D. A tremendous portion of food ...

Blanching simply means to quickly boil foods (typically vegetables, fruits, or nuts) without fully cooking them. The blanched foods are then placed in a bowl of ice water for shocking (another cooking ...