I’d give myself a solid 3/10 in the kitchen. Homemade pasta is the only meal I can execute from scratch without messing up, and that’s likely attributed to the fact that I spent a few hours learning ...

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You can’t open a cookbook without stumbling across a few French phrases. But do you know what they mean? You will by the time you finish reading this. A lot of great things come from France — Chanel, ...

What’s the difference between a slice and a julienne? What do you do when a recipe calls for meat to be diced, and is there really a difference between a smidgen and a dash? And while these cooking ...

Americans have borrowed many favorite dishes and cooking methods from France, adopting the sometimes mystifying French terms that go along with them. Count on this glossary for help in pronouncing and ...

Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But she assumes the recipe direction to "cream" the ...

The honeymoon's over and it's time to get cooking. If only Margie Blake, hapless newlywed, knew how. Lucky for Margie, help is at hand--in the form of what may be the most condescending voiceover ever ...