Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.