New York City's lower East Side– for decades, home to countless immigrants from Eastern Europe, and one delicacy from there that's been the object, lately, of food writer Mimi Sheraton's obsession.

Before baking powder, “You’re talking upwards of 12 hours of rising, usually more like 24 hours,” Jessica Carbone, a scholar in the National Museum of American History’s Food History Project, told ...

I've been making cookies all my life. I'm not exaggerating when I calculate that I've dropped tens of thousands of them onto my battered cookie sheets over the decades. And each batch contains the ...

Modern baking tools are still manufactured to make baking more convenient for home cooks. These tools are easy to use, easy to clean, and prepare ingredients faster than many old-school tools. If ...

Dedicated June 12, 2006, at the Rumford Chemical Works in East Providence, Rhode Island, and April 27, 2007, at Clabber Girl headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana. Bread is considered a basic foodstuff ...

In 1938, Ruth Wakefield accidentally invented the chocolate chip cookie at her Toll House Inn. Her improvisation led to a ...