Before starting work at the Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in New York, I would never have thought about making a genoise. To be truthful, I had never heard of this French dessert. Later, I ...

When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need some type of leavening agent to produce a fluffy, soft crumb ― used to get made. Ancient Roman ...

When autumn comes, a whole new season of entertaining begins. Small dinner parties, club and charity meetings, cocktail get-togethers, big holiday open houses. No matter the size and type of event, a ...

Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

Before starting work at the Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in New York, I would never have thought about making a genoise. To be truthful, I had never heard of this French dessert. Later, I ...