I remember the last thing I cooked before the shutdown last year. I had made my baking friend Edd Kimber’s Salted Black Cocoa Sablés, and as I served the cookies to a couple of friends I’d invited for ...

Scroll through the slideshow above for photos of the recipes listed below. Despite — or maybe because of — the COVID-19 chaos, 2020 was an unusual year for home cooks. From restaurant closures to ...

It’s a bad, sad prospect, Thanksgiving dinner this year. It can’t be a good old Turkey Day when from points far-away family and friends travel to gather inside a just-passably ventilated room, ...

You don’t need me to point out how much COVID-19 took away from all of us in 2020, but in a bizarre twist, the challenges of quarantine might have inadvertently pushed one genre to the next tier of ...

As I searched for and baked from best baking books of the year, I did not take the assignment lightly. I began with approximately five dozen books within the baking category. These included breads, ...

Speaking of home cooking, I was strolling through a cemetery the other day, the historic Graceland on Chicago’s North Side. Holy cripes on toast, you should see the monuments. This one dead guy, ...