Add about 1/2 inch of oil to a medium or large cast-iron skillet. Heat over medium heat until the oil reaches about 350°F, or ...

Cornmeal is dried, ground field corn (not the same type of sweet corn we eat off the cob) that ranges in texture from fine to medium to coarse. The size of the grind indicates how fast the cornmeal ...

A lack of official labeling guidelines and a lot of overlap among the terms can lead to confusion. Here's what you need to know.

Once, at a dinner party, a woman turned to me and said, “It’s a shame you don’t have a food heritage.” The fellow guest, who had Hungarian roots, seemed to be dismissing my generations-deep American ...

It seems so simple. You want to make corn bread or polenta or maybe a cornmeal-crusted fish fillet, and the recipe calls for cornmeal. So you head for the baking aisle at the grocery store to pick ...

In 1967, Helmut Winter made international headlines for flinging some serious dumplings. Outraged at the low-flying military aircraft over his home in Pasing, near Munich, Germany, Winter began firing ...