Cacio e pepe pasta and boiled eggs were the subjects of meticulous studies aiming to help cooks achieve perfection, but the ...

Cooking pasta seems simple, but food experts say you’ve probably been doing it wrong. The secret? It’s all in the salt, the ...

Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to ...

Quick-serve menus may start taking cues from the science lab as operators increasingly experiment with high-tech cooking methods like molecular gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy, which blends technical ...

Some foods are best served straight out of the oven or right from the refrigerator, but there are many dishes and delicacies ...

Davenport argues that cooking mostly with broth and water can slow the deleterious effects of ageing.Photograph: Ivan/Getty Images Dr Michelle Davenport says her grandmother is 95 and doesn’t have any ...

Our task was simple enough: Find the most frugal way to cook pasta, and explain the science behind it. But there was the Nobel laureate’s plan to consider, as well as the opinions of Michelin-starred ...

Hard-boiling, soft-boiling or a trendy sous vide—no matter the approach, cooking a whole egg attains ideal texture for either the yolk or the white but rarely both. Now, however, scientists think they ...