Leviton is no stranger to basic cooking instruction: He teaches in Boston University’s culinary arts program, and has worked with young chefs right out of school, so he’s aware what novices ...

3. The instructions say to "dredge" the chicken in flour. That means you: a. lightly coat the chicken with flour. b. use the chicken to hollow out, or dredge, a ditch in the flour. c.

When it comes to salt and cooking, there's one thing that people frequently assume wrong, and it messes up the taste, quality, and even texture of their meal.

When cooking more than one potato, arrange them as if each potato were the spoke of a wheel radiating from the center of the microwave oven floor. Follow the oven`s cooking instructions.

America has become a nation of inexperienced cooks who are newly determined, thanks to the recession, and that has given cookbook authors and publishers a promising new niche.

Aspiring cooks can mark 2011 as the year the cooking schools came to town. A few months ago, there were only one or two places that offered basic instruction for learning to cook. Since then, two ...