How can anyone reach adulthood and not know how to boil water? It happens. Many high schools no longer offer home-economics courses. Working parents, whose time for cooking is more limited, might rely ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The smell of buttery potatoes, sweet corn, and roasted turkey drifted from Brenda Cunningham’s classroom and into the halls of Glover Middle School Wednesday. Cunningham is a special ...

It wasn’t that Lucas Buccafusca didn’t know what good food was. It was making it that was the hard part. Buccafusca, graduate student in Engineering, rarely hesitates to sample different things. He ...

I spent Friday on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, headed from San Jose to Santa Barbara. Though I didn’t venture into the train’s dining car, I still learned a bit about California’s food systems during the ...

When I taught nutrition classes , some participants pulled me aside and confided that they had no idea how to cook. I learned by observing my mom in the kitchen and from taking high school or college ...