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If you've pledged to eat more veg this year, this Calcutta-style vegetable curry is for you! Dairy-free and vegan, it's built on an aromatic mustard oil base with loads of fresh curry leaf and other good stuff. You'll begin with black mustard seed that you heat 'til it's popping. then come the curry leaves, sweet cinnamon stick, bay leaf, clove and cardamom, plus paprika, golden turmeric, ginger, garlic, shallots, green chili, garam masala, coriander leaf & coconut milk. And

I like bitter lettuces—radicchio, endive, arugula—even dandelion, but balanced. So this salad has just a few leaves of the most pungent...

There is a cupboard I keep where little-used kitchen tools lay to rest. Mallets and scrapers, zesters and sifters, grapefruit spoons and...

My best friend in college--blonde, blue-eyed Becky, grew up in Thailand, and didn’t even visit the States until well into her teens. We...

I am just back from TUTTOFOODMilano, Italy’s biggest food exposition—akin to our National Restaurant Association show, but on...

It's hard not to geek out about mycology with a visit to Windy City Mushroom. Way beyond the buttons or cremini most of us know, this...

Chicago artist Matt Bergstrom is known for his meticulous Chicago architectural paper models. His series of postcard build-your-owns lets...