Chinese cooking is a labor of love, emphasis on labor. All that chopping and frying, followed by the vigorous scrubbing of pans and woks to clean them. It’s why I typically prefer takeout. This ...

Darrin Zhou pours soy sauce into a pot with red braised pork Friday, September 29. Jeremy Weine/Daily. Buy this photo. I will break it down this way: odor molecules make their way high into your nose, ...

When Francis Lam, a former New York Times Magazine columnist, scoured the Internet for recipes, he found a longing for connection through food among the comments: People, he wrote, “coming to someone ...

What kind of food will be popping up on tables during the 2026 Lunar New Year? In Chinese culture – not the only Asian culture to celebrate the holiday, surely, but a big one in the Bay Area – think ...

Seven decades ago, long before Fu Pei-mei became a beloved authority on Chinese cooking, she was struggling to make jiaozi. These boiled dumplings from northern China were her husband’s favorite and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. In Chinese, we speak of Chi-ya-yü-jou, “chicken, duck, fish, meat” as the sum total of animal food. But when ...