You’ve donned your proverbial chef’s hat, you’re in the middle of making crème brûlée and BAM, you’re a deer in the headlights. “What the hell does temper even mean?” you cry as hot milk slops onto ...

Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But she assumes the recipe direction to "cream" the ...

If you're new to home cooking, the jargon can be confusing - here's a helpful guide. Photo / Getty Images Don’t know the difference between mirepoix and mise en place? Nikki Birrell decodes some ...

Americans have borrowed many favorite dishes and cooking methods from France, adopting the sometimes mystifying French terms that go along with them. Count on this glossary for help in pronouncing and ...

You can’t open a cookbook without stumbling across a few French phrases. But do you know what they mean? You will by the time you finish reading this. A lot of great things come from France — Chanel, ...

What’s the difference between a slice and a julienne? What do you do when a recipe calls for meat to be diced, and is there really a difference between a smidgen and a dash? And while these cooking ...

The honeymoon's over and it's time to get cooking. If only Margie Blake, hapless newlywed, knew how. Lucky for Margie, help is at hand--in the form of what may be the most condescending voiceover ever ...

Chef Joel Gamoran, founder of Homemade.com, walks Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Sheinelle Jones through some cooking terms such as mincing, chopping and folding while cooking a steak and mashed ...

Here are terms and ingredients you’ll see at ramen shops. Shoyu: Ramen with soy sauce added to the clear brown stock, usually made with chicken. Widely available; consider it ramen’s basic ...