NEWTON — All chefs have their own way of doing things: cutting an onion, roasting potatoes, making a basic sauce. And all chefs will tell you their way is the right way. It’s no wonder then, with so ...

1. To blanch a vegetable means to: a. plunge it into boiling water briefly, then immediately into cold. b. boil it until soft. c. steam it until it turns very pale, or blanched. 2. If a recipe says to ...

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 ...

America has become a nation of inexperienced cooks who are newly determined, thanks to the recession, and that has given cookbook authors and publishers a promising new niche. / Source: The Associated ...