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This week, chef Mitzi Stinson shows how to make glazed pineapple pork chops using a simple recipe.

Weekly food rail, with an easy beef-brisket recipe, critics weigh in on Astronaut Ice Cream, quiz on what a boilermaker is and more.

Chiffonade (shif-on-odd) is a French slicing technique where leafy vegetables or herbs are stacked, rolled and then thinly cut producing fine ribbons, often for garnishing.

Call it what you want. It’s still a Poor Boy in New Orleans. You don’t have a town without a signature sandwich. There’s Philly cheese steaks, L.A. fish tacos, Chicago hot dogs, St. Louis grinders, Miami Cubans. Then there’s hoagies, subs, torpedoes and zeps for the rest of us.

When I was living at home in Johnstown, Pa., I didn’t think about what my mom was cooking up. It wasn’t until I went to college that I realized my mom’s culinary know-how would win me friends forever. My friends marveled over my mother’s homemade pirohi (pierogies).

Rhode Island's Coastal Extreme offers tastes for every kind of weather.

I’m at a ribs burnoff talking to a Texas barbecue man about brisket. Rather, I’m doing the talking. These guys are tight about cooking. You must get them angry to spill their secrets.

Astronaut Ice Cream; freeze-dried, ready-to-eat space food

Weekly food rail, with Critic’s Cupboard on Yöghund, an easy shrimp recipe and more.

Baked beans are a summer picnic staple. If you love the ultra-Americana dish, chances are you already have a favorite family recipe.

The word has become a commonly used North American term for Eastern European styles of sausage, including Ukrainian sausage, which is called kovbasa or kubasa.

Who am I, and where did I come from? Most folks eventually come to this intersection of introspection. For me, being an irrepressible foodie, I want to eat my past along with researching it.

Summer is the perfect time to throw a formal tea party.

From chips to pork chops, most cookout staples are part of the trend of rising food prices. But if you’re willing to take the time to find deals, the savings on your cookout items can be had.