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Jamila Aamer is the head chef at the Amal Women's Training Center. To date, she's trained more than 100 students.

World News

By Becoming Chefs, Stigmatized Women In Morocco Find Hope And Freedom

5:04pm August 21, 2018

by Rebecca Rosman

Females make up less than 30 percent of the the country's labor force. But one nonprofit is providing restaurant and cooking training to vulnerable women who have been shut out by Moroccan society.

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Von Diaz drew on her experiences in her grandmother's Puerto Rican kitchen and her Southeastern American roots to write her cookbook, Coconuts and Collards.

Books
Arts

Puerto Rican Cooking And The American South Mix In 'Coconuts And Collards'

6:02am March 18, 2018

Author Von Diaz's cookbook Coconuts and Collards offers a vegetable-forward take on foods she learned to cook from her Puerto Rican grandmother and on the fly in her family's kitchen near Atlanta.

On Broadway, Daniel Breaker shines as Alexander Hamilton's greatest rival, Aaron Burr. In the kitchen, he also creates a stir, sir. But whether acting or cooking, both require perseverance and experimentation.

Hamilton's Aaron Burr Has Some Culinary Advice: Talk Less, Cook More (Creatively)

8:00am February 11, 2018

by Kristen Hartke

On Broadway, Daniel Breaker shines as Alexander Hamilton's greatest rival. In the kitchen, he also creates a stir, sir. But whether acting or cooking, both require perseverance and experimentation.

A chemical irritant that onions use to protect themselves against animals is released when we cut them, making us cry.

Stop Crying! Tear-Free Onions Are Here

1:22pm February 08, 2018

by Tove Danovich

For years, people have been crying about how chopping onions brings on the waterworks. Well, there's finally a tearless onion, but the allium has not quite caught on with the general public yet.

Rainbow trout on a grill. Yia Vang says that food played a central role in his home — his mother grew vegetables and his father cooked meat over a fire pit in the backyard.

National

In Minnesota, An Ambassador For Hmong Culture And Culinary Traditions

11:54am November 27, 2017

by Danielle Renwick

After his family fled Laos for America, Yia Vang was at first embarrassed by his family's home cooking. Then he learned to embrace it, and found that many others were willing to do the same.

One of Twitty's projects is his "Southern Discomfort Tour" — a journey through the "forgotten little Africa" of the Old South. He picks cotton, chops wood, works in rice fields and cooks for audiences in plantation kitchens while dressed in slave clothi

A Black Food Historian Explores His Bittersweet Connection To Robert E. Lee

7:00am September 05, 2017

by Nina Martyris

Michael Twitty's enslaved ancestors witnessed the Confederate general's surrender, the significance of which weaves through his new memoir as he seeks 'culinary justice' for African Americans.

After World War II, Americans were ready to fill their lives — and kitchens — with cheerful colors and kitsch.

National

Does Your Family's Century-Old Pyrex Still Rule The Kitchen?

9:02am July 25, 2017

by Tove K. Danovich

It wouldn't be surprising. The cheerful, vintage pieces are durable and able to help with almost any culinary task. And passionate collectors have devoted blogs, fan groups and social media to it.

Chef Dadisi Olutosin makes collard greens, a beloved staple of the American South — but with a Caribbean-West African twist.

Cooking Collard Greens With A West African And Caribbean Twist

2:02pm July 13, 2017

by Rhitu Chatterjee

It's a dish that Dadisi Olutosin ate as a kid in Atlanta. As an adult he discovered its international roots and came up with a recipe that's true to his mother — and the culinary heritage of collards.

Books
Arts

'Small Victories' Aims To Make Home Cooking Accessible To All

1:27pm May 09, 2017

Cookbook author Julia Turshen says cooking should be flexible: "[Recipes] are kind of sold to people as prescriptions, these really precise things, ... but I think there's very rarely a wrong answer.

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The hardworking Instant Pot, touted by its fans on social media, is Amazon's top-selling item in the U.S. How it got to No. 1 is a lesson in viral marketing savvy.

National

Not Just A Crock: The Viral Word-Of-Mouth Success Of Instant Pot

1:51pm January 18, 2017

by Grace Hwang Lynch

Launched in 2010, the multifunction cooker became a sleeper hit last year. That's when its maker harnessed the enthusiasm of owners – self-dubbed "addicts" – to spread the word online.