Renee Enna

Everyone does it sometime. You're following a recipe to the letter. And yet ... SOMETHING GOES WRONG. The fudge fails. The roast is tough. The sauce breaks. "What did I...

Try it: Long-grain, short-grain, white or brown ... is this the limit of your rice repertoire? Maybe it's time to add a new hue to your plate. Depending on where...

First impressions: Downtown Palatine is getting a major overhaul these days, and Gumbo A Go-Go, which opened in August, is part of the boom, occupying retail space in one of...

We love community cookbooks, those distinctive collections of community recipes that more often than not benefit worthy charitable causes. So we love the annual Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards, which recognizes...

Green food has become ever so trendy, at least as it pertains to local, organic and sustainable. But St. Patrick's Day allows us to regress to the original meaning of...

Try it: In 1908, Frank Meyer imported this cross between a lemon and a tangerine to the U.S. from China, writes Aliza Green in "Field Guide to Produce." They look...

OK, team, listen up: Super Bowl Sunday is a few days away, which means that Nibblemania is about to overrun the land. Millions of bowls and trays will be tempting...

Try it: Also called Napoleon wafers, these shrink-wrapped rounds of edible wafers are sold in Eastern European markets as well as in the ethnic-foods aisle of some larger supermarkets. Think...

If you're a baker, you know there are two types of cocoa out there: Dutch process and natural. (The natural is rarely labeled as such; the package usually just calls...