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Wazas are chefs whose craft is passed down through family lines.

Meet the 'Devil Chefs' of Kashmir

Families use skills passed down over generations to prepare a special feast.

Safina Nabi February 4, 2022

Frère Jean inside his monastery.

The Fashion Photographer Who Became a Monastery Chef

Cloistered cooking can still be high art.

Anna Richards January 5, 2022

Córdoba, Spain

Noor

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

Muralidharan worked with illustrators Shrishti Dabolkar and Priyadarshini Narayana to create renderings of the vegetables featured in <em>Cook and See</em>.

Cracking the Case of South India's Missing Vegetables

A food designer used quarantine to track down the mystery produce in his grandmother's cookbook.

Reina Gattuso July 22, 2020

Steven Raichlen has been around the world four times documenting the different ways people cook food over fire.

How to Make Smoked Foods From Around the World on Your Stovetop

With advice and recipes from a renowned expert.

Luke Fater July 1, 2020

Ingredients that underpin the cuisine include pitseed goosefoot (left), a type of physalis known as ground cherries, among other names (center), and sunflowers pressed into oil (right).

The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine

Researching traditional foods led them to the revelations of an archaeological dig in Kentucky.

Eric J. Wallace June 4, 2020

One pantry's rice and beans is another pantry's fufu and cattail roots.

Around the World in 6 Quarantine Pantries

How chefs in Bolivia, Malaysia, Italy, Rwanda, Canada, and Thailand are preparing for lockdown.

Luke Fater April 9, 2020

The Chef Restoring Appalachia's World-Class Food Culture

A coal fortune is fueling the revival of a cuisine it nearly destroyed.

Eric J. Wallace January 10, 2020

Dr. Katja Rebolj and Peter Zajc pick invasive Himalayan balsam, which can only be eaten in small quantities, and which they use only occasionally.

The Intrepid Herb Hunters Who Scour Alpine Mountains and Meadows for Top Chefs

Slovenia's most celebrated restaurants rely on their foraging.

Noah Charney May 13, 2019

Georgia Gilmore poses for photographers after testifying as a defense witness in the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., March 21, 1956, in Montgomery.

The Underground Kitchen That Funded the Civil Rights Movement

Georgia Gilmore's cooking fueled the Montgomery bus boycott.

Jessica Gingrich December 31, 2018

The Johnsons hired their longtime cook, Zephyr Wright, as presidential chef after feuding with her French predecessor.

When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans

It was part of an “enduring rivalry” between African-American and French cooking in the White House.

Ryleigh Nucilli November 29, 2018

Meat piled high and served on a trami.

Wazwan

This Kashmiri feast features 36 dishes and takes more than two hours to eat.

Chef Rich Francis at his home in Six Nations, Ontario.

How an Indigenous Chef Is Decolonizing Canadian Cuisine

Rich Francis is reclaiming and reinventing an erased food culture.

Gautham Krishnaraj August 3, 2018

Philippe Parola with a large Asian carp.

The Chef Cooking Up Invasive Species

Asian carp are a problem, but they're also dinner.

Anne Ewbank March 13, 2018