Orange You Glad

The cocktail snack of the year

Sparklers, snifters, on the rocks and up: Cocktail-party season is here, and its festive drinks need a smart bite or two. To that end, Chicago chef Tony Mantuano's olives are...

Thrice as Nice

A double-baked holiday cookie

This month, Tasting Table is sweet on holiday cookies. This is the 11th in our 12-part series, the 12 Days of Cookies: Crunchy biscotti are best enjoyed with a cup of coffee or...

Side Story

Savory bread pudding takes center stage

Whole-animal cooking is business as usual for Jason Barwikowski. So when he received whole chickens (including the feet, liver and heart) from his local purveyor, he decided to...

On the Lamb

A sweet savory twist on Southwestern game

The Palace Restaurant was vacant for several years before Joseph Wrede's Craigslist search landed him in the kitchen of the Santa Fe haunt. The interior, known in the 1960s for its...

Chefs' Table

12 recipes from some of the country's best sous chefs

Throughout 2011, Tasting Table and Williams-Sonoma invited 12 of the country's most gifted sous chefs into our kitchens. The up-and-coming chefs, each of whom hailed from one of...

Polenta Perfection

A Scottsdale chef's take on the Italian staple

Chef Peter DeRuvo knows that the key to authentic Italian polenta lies in high-quality ground corn and classic technique. At his modern Italian restaurant, Cuoco Pazzo, the...