Taste Daily

A family of deep-fried snacks reflects the island nation’s rich history of immigrant diversity, as well as its tumultuous past and complicated present.

The muddled history of the famous tequila cocktail.

Wheat, meat, and time: Halim matches your favorite oatmeal toppings with a savory lamb base.

An urban legend says that you burn more calories eating celery than the vegetable contains. And it might be true! Kinda.

It’s not always the raw eggs that get you.

What a 1 million Scoville unit pepper really means.

The traditional Hawaiian dish has been co-opted and reinvented by hipster fast-casual chains around the world. This is not cool.

Malcom X tea will mess you up.

Samin Nosrat’s authoritative, definitive Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is the breakout cookbook of a generation. But have you checked out the tart dough recipe?

How a high school dropout janitor created a junk food icon.

Wait, is that pork belly? A few restaurant tricks can turn this unglamorous root vegetable into a rich, caramelized porcine imposter.

Think less Sichuan Province and more...Springfield, Missouri?

Somewhere between a reuben and a Cuban, the New Jersey sloppy joe is worlds away from the saucy sandwich your elementary school cafeteria served.

The love-it-or-hate-it pie has more to do with Canada than Polynesia.

Can a food writer with a passion for capers and sushi really train himself to eat only a teaspoon of salt per day?

The science behind our favorite fizzy candy.

Tea is consumed all over the world, but only in the U.S. has it been so equated with femininity that some companies try to profit from the idea that drinking it makes you less of a man.

Why a few pine nuts can make everything you eat taste bitter for days.

We may call them French fries in the U.S., but they were born in Belgium as a street food for the rich.

How the dairy world’s most seductive curds get their stink.