Ingredients

The essence of cooking lies within the ingredients. Understand which ingredients are essential to every cook's kitchen.
Fresh grated horseradish root
How to Cook With Fresh Horseradish
Palm oil in a glass bowl
What is Palm Oil?
A bowl of kosher salt with a wooden spoon
Diamond Crystal vs. Morton Kosher Salt—What's the Difference?
sliced red onion rings on a cutting board
How to Freeze Your Onions and Make Them Last for Months
3 hrs 10 mins
A close up photo of a steak half sliced, with melting herb butter on top
What Is Cowboy Butter?
Easy Fruit Salad ingredients in bowls
Why Some Fruits Ripen Once Picked and Others Don't, According to Science
Why Sichuan Peppers Make Your Mouth Buzz, According to Science
msg on a spoon with emoji faces of drooling, heart-eyes, and curious
How to Use MSG (And Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of It)
garlic and cloves floating in the air
Why Are My Garlic Cloves So Tiny?
Homemade Sprinkles
Homemade Sprinkles
12 hrs 10 mins
person shopping for meat at grocery store
“Produced In USA” Label for Meat Doesn’t Mean What You Think
An illustration of three colorful containers, each showing illustrated mushrooms on their labels
The One-Ingredient Flavor Booster I Can't Cook Without
pumpkin pie spice in a bowl
Pumpkin Pie Spice
5 mins
Tempura Udon
Noodles Around The World
tempered white chocolate in a bowl
How to Temper White Chocolate
25 mins
variety of tomatoes on marble surface
The Essential Guide to Tomatoes
Red wine vinegar in glass jars
Red Wine Vinegar Recipe
14 days 5 mins
Gochujang
What is Gochujang?
peanuts in and out of the shell
What Are Peanuts?
merguez sausage on butcher paper
What Is Merguez?
George Washington Carver writing
George Washington Carver
Bell peppers
What Are Bell Peppers?
Fish and seafood
Seafood By The Season
A cod fillet on parchment paper
What Is Cod Fish?
illustration of the world with foods and food labels circling it
Green and Ethical Food Labels
Watercress
What Is Watercress?
Urban Farm
What Is Urban Farming?
Corn syrup
What Is Corn Syrup?
peanuts in and out of the shell
Dr. Peanut: George Washington Carver
Shopping for sustainable foods
Food Sustainability
Halibut
What Is Halibut?
Filets of flounder
What Is Flounder?
Fresh apricots
What Is an Apricot?
Brown eggs on striped tablecloth
Types of Eggs
Lemons
What to Do With Lemons
Tomato powder
What Is Tomato Powder?
Camu camu berries
What Is Camu Camu?
Vegan cheese
What Is Vegan Cheese?
Pine needle tea
What Is Pine Needle Tea?
Monk Fruit
What Is Monk Fruit?
Bowl of Irish Moss (aka Sea Moss)
What Is Sea Moss?
Lemon Squash
What Are Lemon Squash?
Brown Butter
What Is Brown Butter?
South Indian-Style Chicken Curry with green chiles in a pan
The South Indian Pantry
Rajma Dal: Red Kidney Bean Curry in a pot
The North Indian Pantry
Card Placeholder Image
What Are Crookneck Squash?
Brussels Sprouts
What Are Brussels Sprouts?
Dickinson pumpkins
What Are Dickinson Pumpkins?
Lard
What Is Lard?
somen noodles over ice on a plate
What Are Somen Noodles?
Soba Noodles
What Are Soba Noodles?
Pastry flour
What Is Pastry Flour?
Satsuma Mandarins
What Are Satsuma Mandarins?
Calamansi citrus fruits whole and cut in half
What Are Calamansi Limes?
Tangelos on a grey surface
What Are Tangelos?
Bitter oranges, some whole some cut in half
What Are Bitter Oranges?
Fresh homemade pasta noodles.
What Are Egg Noodles?
Shirataki Noodles in a bowl
What Are Shirataki Noodles?
Vermicelli
What Is Vermicelli?
Linguine
What Is Linguine?
Tagliatelle
What Is Tagliatelle?
Sweet Limes
What Are Sweet Limes?
Cara Cara Oranges
What Are Cara Cara Oranges?