Baking biscuits is seriously delicious business. If you're after the best batch, take a page from chef and author Michael ...

As a follow-up to their excellent Charcuterie, these two Midwestern cured-meat aficionados focus on the skills and ingredients needed for creating a variety of Italian classics. Proponents of ...

5 garlic cloves, crushed with the side of a knife 1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons black peppercorns 1 whole turkey breast, 12 pounds Cook's notes: This recipe requires time to simmer and then chill the brine ...

Welcome to Celebrate Sausage. In this episode, we are making the German Frankfurter. The featured books in this series ...

The brisket was the first of four meals I made from Michael Ruhlman’s new cookbook, Ruhlman’s How to Braise: Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook (Little, Brown and Co., $25). It revived ...

This year's Thanksgiving celebration coincides with the first day Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. It's a convergence that hasn't occurred since 1888 and which may not occur again for more ...

Author Michael Ruhlman wants to free home cooks from what he calls the "shackles of the recipe." He says home cooks are so focused on recipes that... Throw Away The Recipe; Learn The Ratio Instead ...

There’s a style of food writing that has proliferated in recent years, a sort of precious, overdone prose that makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out. I love eating food and I love making it. The ...

Just in time for Easter, food writer Michael Ruhlman has a new cookbook that will likely change the way you think about the egg. At the very least, you may learn how to spruce up your scrambled egg ...

On a warm spring evening at a 2009 food conference, author Michael Ruhlman was at the bar discussing kitchen skills with a powerful cookbook editor. "In between sips of his mint julep," Ruhlman ...