Food

‘Blue Food’ cookbook champions seafood for any meal

NEW YORK — Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver are what you'd call seafood fanatics. Or blue food evangelists. They want us to eat more things from the water, even first thing in the morning. "Seafood for breakfast is delicious," says Zimmern, a chef, writer and TV host. Seaver, a chef and ...

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkins haunt landfill

More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy, but yours doesn't have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can be eaten, composted or even fed to animals. Here's how. Cooking with pumpkin waste If you're ...

A cheese lover’s cheat sheet to the right mozzarella for every dish

If you've ever wandered into the cheese section with the innocent intent of "just picking up some mozzarella," you know it's not that simple. What was once a single white orb in plastic wrap is now an entire category. Fresh, low-moisture, smoked, buffalo, burrata — mozzarella takes many ...

The Dubai chocolate craze is now about much more than bars

NEW YORK — Some flavor crazes flirt with us and fade. Others stay and make themselves at home. It's too soon to tell for sure, but the Dubai chocolate movement seems to have put down roots and is spreading at a brisk clip. The sweet flavors and thick texture that have made Dubai chocolate ...