White sauce—or bechamel, if you use its French name—is one of the five mother sauces taught in culinary schools. Its simplicity makes it a blank canvas for creativity; once you’ve mastered it, you can ...

This elegant 30-minute cod and clams recipe builds a glossy white wine–butter sauce in one skillet. Purge the clams for clean ...

In Venetian scampi alla busara, large, sweet, shell-on prawns are bathed in a sauce made with fresh tomatoes and flavored with a splash of white wine, smashed garlic cloves and a sprinkling of pepper ...

If there was ever a “Salt and Stone formula” for a great meal, it would simply be to combine cooked pasta with whatever delicious vegetable happens to be in season and available. Once you’ve done that ...