Nigel Slater's hazelnut recipes

Whether you mix it with fruit, dark chocolate or golden caramel, the hazelnut is at the heart of great baking, says Nigel Slater

The Best Mother's Day Gift. Ever.

I'll be honest with you, I'm not a mother, so this is something of a hunch. But, I do have a mother, and a mother-in-law, so I'll retract that, it's really more an educated hunch. Mothers, it seems to me, like nothing more than to have the luxury to enjoy doing exactly what they want to do, not necessarily what you think they want to do. Trust me, the two are almost never the same thing. Another ...

How to cook perfect chocolate chip cookies

Are chocolate chip cookies America's single greatest contribution to world cuisine?

Honor mom with coffee cake

The first thing I ever picked out to bake with my mother was a lemon blueberry Bundt cake. I’d seen an ad for the cake — complete with lemon-yellow icing — and thought it was the most sophisticated, beautiful cake possible.

Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: With proper maintenance, growing season can provide diverse harvest

Whew! I finally got all my vegetables in for this season. If luck is with me, I'll be harvesting a bounty come August and September.