Leviton is no stranger to basic cooking instruction: He teaches in Boston University’s culinary arts program, and has worked with young chefs right out of school, so he’s aware what novices ...

When it comes to salt and cooking, there's one thing that people frequently assume wrong, and it messes up the taste, quality, and even texture of their meal.

Instruction includes culinary foundations and techniques including plant-based cooking, mastering the fry pan, homemade pasta, and knife skills.

When cooking more than one potato, arrange them as if each potato were the spoke of a wheel radiating from the center of the microwave oven floor. Follow the oven`s cooking instructions.

America has become a nation of inexperienced cooks who are newly determined, thanks to the recession, and that has given cookbook authors and publishers a promising new niche.

Aspiring cooks can mark 2011 as the year the cooking schools came to town. A few months ago, there were only one or two places that offered basic instruction for learning to cook. Since then, two ...