Food and Drink

These noodles are a fun and approachable dish equally good for a busy weeknight or to celebrate Chinese New Year. Asian markets are jammed with many different noodle varieties.

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn't one. Though it resembles and is used similar to black peppercorns, Sichuan pepper isn't a peppercorn at all.

Chinese New Year is the sort of new year celebration I love.

Looking for a few simple ways to freshen up the go-to dish of the Super Bowl? We cobbled together a mighty tasty basic guacamole, then came up with four ways to turn basic into unbelievably good.

TORONTO - John Catucci thinks he has one of the best jobs in the world. As the host of TV's "You Gotta Eat Here!," he travels the country highlighting little-known restaurants and in the process meets some amazing people and samples incredible food.

Super Bowl Sunday surely is one of the meatiest eating days of the year. But it's still somewhat surprising the lengths some people will go to push their game day feed over the top.

I long ago fell in love with the clean, crisp, sweet taste of Meyer lemons. And recently, Mexican foods guru Rick Bayless reminded me why.

The day of the big game calls for big, stick-to-your-ribs grub. So we went with that as a theme, creating a recipe for boneless beef short ribs that are inspired by all the sweet and sticky goodness of Chinese-style pork ribs.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Mireya Bustamante spent most of the day trying in vain to find flour to bake a birthday cake for her 4-year-old son.

TORONTO - Food spooned out of a slow cooker that is crunchy, colourful and flavourful may seem like an impossibility, but Sally Vaughan-Johnston says she has some tricks to achieve just that.