IMHO, too many vegetables are peeled. Some that I never peel: apples, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, butternut squash. Cucumbers with waxed skin I peel, but not English (hot...

My son tells me that sweet potato leaves thicken the liquid in which they're cooked (cf. okra). I stir-fry them dry, and they're quite tasty.

Top-quality knife blocks have the slots sideways, so the knife blade rests on the side. This protects the edge.

I bought one of the cookers based on this post, and I want to say that it's absolutely terrific. @luv2cook: As explained in the post (and also in their video on

Turmeric is a very powerful anti-inflammatory and also seems to prevent cancer. I use 1/2 tsp daily in my cooked hot cereal.

With gas stoves, the products of combustion go into the air in the kitchen. Unless you have an extremely good and powerful exhaust fan, the air in the house will be slightly polluted. It's been fou...

I learned about this knife via Cool Tools and found it superlative: Tosagata Hocho 6 in Santoku Hocho

I would use it as I use any oil: primarily for sautéing things. (I'm not a baker.) Interesting that this came up: my wife is cutting dairy from her diet, but since all the milk...

In the story, "rarebit" should be "rabbit." The name of the dish is Welsh rabbit, a sly joke. "Rarebit" is simply wrong, though all too often used, primarily by those who didn't get the joke.

The term I've seen for salting vegetables to extract the water is "to macerate". I usually macerate cucumbers and also eggplant.

I just made a celery root and fennel salad a couple of nights ago. The mandoline I have is the

I love goat. I buy it from time to time, using online from Goatmeats.com, the Website of Copeland Family Farms. They sell a leg of goat that is wonderful roasted, as well as other cuts and sausage....

The same sponges at Trader Joe's are $7.

Just a comment: stirred cocktails have quite a different taste and mouthfeel from stirred cocktails, so the choice of method is not trivial. For example, if you use Martini ingredients and stir the...

Whole Foods out here has small carts---their top compartment is slightly larger than a basket. That's what I always use.

If you add club soda to an Old Fashioned, you no longer have a cocktail but instead a highball. Cocktails don't use mixers like water, tonic, soda, fruit juice, and the like.

Meyer lemons are terrific, and I get the idea that only now have large-scale commercial growers able to deliver their first crops---which is why the lemons from this first crop are running small, p...

I have some very bad news about Noilly Prat. Although it has been the premier Martini vermouth, they are changing the formula to make it sweeter---think Lillet. So Martini drinkers are cast into th...

Another comment: the measuring cups shown are the type I use for measuring dry ingredients, filling to the brim. Pouring spouts would be useful only if the cups were used for measuring liquids, but...

Read this Wikipedia article for more information on how the size of "1 cup" varies. And Imperial measures are NOT US measures.