There are few cooking tools that better facilitate mankind's love affair with food cooked over a flame than the barbecue grill. And while modern grill masters understand just how delicious ...

I’m not alone in wanting to test the outer limits of the potato’s versatility. One of my first moves in a new restaurant is to scan for “loaded fries” and see how the kitchen interprets the form. At ...

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Few ingredients are as willing as the potato to become exactly what you want them to be. I’ve long taken it up on the offer. As a pre-teen, freshly sprung from an orthodontist’s chair, my idea of ...