The kitchen is the heart of the home – it’s the reason the “open concept” kitchen is such a popular home design. It makes the kitchen the center of our lives, instead of hidden off in some corner.

It wasn’t that Lucas Buccafusca didn’t know what good food was. It was making it that was the hard part. Buccafusca, graduate student in Engineering, rarely hesitates to sample different things. He ...

The tantalizing scent of chocolate chips melting into creamy peanut butter filled the room as Wesley Taylor, 11, poured honey-flavored cereal into a mixing bowl to make a snack called “Trash.” A group ...

Processed and convenience foods and shortcut cooking methods have become so entrenched in our culinary culture, it’s easy to forget just how much we have forgotten about real cooking. But cooking ...

If your child has aspirations of being on Chopped Junior or Top Chef Junior, there are plenty places around town where young chefs can learn kitchen basics and sharpen their culinary skills. We’ve ...

Aspiring cooks can mark 2011 as the year the cooking schools came to town. A few months ago, there were only one or two places that offered basic instruction for learning to cook. Since then, two full ...