A former coworker once scoffed at the idea that my dry-fried green beans could beat his broccoli salad at an office potluck party. Let’s just say that I left the office with an empty dish, and he didn ...

I baked a lot of cookies for my newspaper’s annual holiday cookie contest and my kitchen floor isn’t the only thing that ended up a sweet and sticky mess. My palate, after baking and tasting a dozen ...

This easy recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks, “Chinese Soul Food” by Hsiao-Ching Chou, involves blistering green beans using a shallow frying method called gan bian, or “dry-frying.” Because you ...

Every Wednesday night, Bon Appétit food director Carla Lalli Music takes over our newsletter with a sleeper-hit recipe from the Test Kitchen vault. It gets better: If you sign up for our newsletter, ...