It’s Christmas week, so what better time for a comforting, luxurious drink than hot chocolate? Especially with a base that can be made ahead of time, tweaked to your taste and finished when desired.

A few years ago the Italian coffee company LavAzza hired the world’s leading molecular gastronomist, Ferran Adria, to come up with coffee you can eat. The Spanish chef, known as the wizard of foam, ...

Inspired by burfi — a fudgy, milk-based South Asian sweet — Hetal Vasavada makes a pistachio bark topped with melted white chocolate, edible flowers, and just a touch of 24-karat gold or pure silver ...

At the deep end of my pantry sits a large glass jar filled with basmati rice—with exquisitely long grains accompanied by an equally splendid aroma. In most Indian homes, basmati rice is a staple used ...

There is no denying the hold the pumpkin spice everything has on American food culture during the fall. From lattes to cookies to ice cream to… kettle corn, pumpkin has taken over as the ingredient ...

The typical grocer sells some 50,000 different products. The typical shopper buys the same 264 over and over again. The point of this column? To persuade you to take a second look at some of the ...

Swedish cardamom buns are like presents, perfectly wrapped in their iconic knots and gifting the truest taste of real cardamom. Also known as kardemummabullar, Swedish cardamom buns are a staple in ...

Cardamom adds a powerfully sweet, somehow magical note to the simplest pastry or dessert. It’s deeply, transportingly aromatic. It’s like a gift the magi could have brought. Somehow, cardamom seems ...

What it is: Cardamom is a spice that comes from a perennial bush related to the ginger family. Cardamom grows wild in India, but it is now also cultivated in Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Indochina and ...