Starches occupy a unique niche in cooking. While they have no flavor or aroma, they play a pivotal role in thickening sauces, ...

Coat the potatoes in an orange zest and cinnamon marinade, with balsamic vinegar and garlic, or honey, miso, and ginger. The ...

It sounds obvious, but the key to making gluten-free, pull-apart dinner rolls that can appease everybody at Thanksgiving ...

There’s nothing worse than a thin sauce or a watery stew, but such undesirable outcomes can happen to the best of us, which is why the kitchen gods have blessed us with cornstarch—a magical powder ...

Retrogradation is a process in which food starches, after cooking and cooling, crystallize to become resistant to digestion. The conversion reduces the digestible calories and increases health ...