​​Griffin Baum is the author of a cookbook that features recipes, cooking techniques and recommendations on how to organize a kitchen. But Baum is not a chef. He’s a neurosurgeon who specializes in spinal surgery, and for years he’s heard from his patients that cooking is a challenge. “I always ask my patients, what’s something that you…

Ina, Emeril, Giada. Mashama, Vivian, and Kwame. Today, we’re all blessed with a seemingly-endless library of free online cooking lessons from chefs who are so world-famous, they only need one name. But long before those celeb chefs graced our small screens, most of us learned our very first cooking lessons at home from a couple other…

If you’ve ever watched a seasoned Southern cook in the kitchen, you’ll find that there are certain things they just know. Their biscuits are fluffier, their sweet tea is just perfect. They always seem to know what to serve, and how to make ingredients taste their best. Those lessons might have been passed down from…

These delightful French cookies can be tricky for even the most seasoned bakers, but these tips and tricks will put them well within reach. In the baking world, French macarons, an almond sandwich cookie consisting of two meringue shells filled with ganache, buttercream or jam, are known as a particularly tricky confection with a high…