Cooking Chart

Walk into any Italian supermarket and you’ll be face-to-face with hundreds of different kinds of pastas. There’s a huge variety, and at first glance it … Read more

Imagine that you’re in bakery. You see two bars of chocolate on display. One bar is a deep brown; another is pale with a hint … Read more

The chart uses the sugar content in wine, measured in grams per liter, to map the spectrum from sweet to dry wines and divide them … Read more

Did you ever make a cake and it turned out gross? You followed the directions to a T yet something was off, probably the flour. … Read more

How many times have you found yourself standing in front of two cans, each a different size, wondering which one is meant for the recipe? … Read more

So you’re standing in the wine aisle. You pick up a bottle of Port and a bottle of Barolo. One tastes like leather and dried … Read more

Have you ever been puzzled while stirring a potful of soup, pouring it into serving bowls, and finding that they were mysteriously skimpy? Later, you … Read more

If you’re stuck on the wine shelf wondering about what’s going to taste good in your mouth, with labels claiming something complex but your tongue … Read more

Probably you began with the jalapeño, moving to the serrano if your tolerance has allowed. But then came those super-hots, the ones that make a … Read more