Bombay native and cookbook author Raghavan Iyer explains how to improvise Indian cuisine with juniper berries, fish sauce and mixed berry jam — three ingredients submitted by Victoria Dougherty's ...

About a year ago I went a little crazy in a specialty spice store and picked up all kinds of exotic spices to try. Since then I’ve been slowly working through them, trying to figure what the heck to ...

Just 30 years ago, America’s best chefs had little idea what wonderful foods lay out in the wild, write Connie Green and Sarah Scott in The Wild Table (Viking Studio). Today, foraging enthusiasts are ...

The Alsatian stew, choucroute garnie, deserves some kind of cold weather food medal. In the darkest depths of winter we all crave figurative as well as literal warmth—call it hygge if you must—and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Diabetes is understood as a lifelong disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, that requires meticulous management. It can occur when insulin production falters, or when the body becomes desensitised to ...

This is an installment of NPR's Cook Your Cupboard, an ongoing food series about working with what you have on hand. Have a food that has you stumped? Share a photo and we'll ask chefs about our ...