French cooking is known for its elegance and precision, but it's built on simple, foundational techniques that any home cook ...

Garlic, the humble yet mighty clove, stars in every dish of our handpicked collection of 25 irresistibly garlicky recipes.

These flavor-packed vegan sides might just upstage your main dish, and no one will complain. In every great meal, there’s a moment of quiet rebellion, the second when a so-called “side” steals the ...

A classic French cooking method— confit refers to the preservation of meats, vegetables or fruit by way of slow-cooking an ingredient(s) in a liquid immune to bacterial infestation. Essentially, the ...

Long before modern preservation methods like freezing and vacuum sealing, salt, fat, and air-drying were the methods to prolong the shelf life of food. Food preservation was a necessity to prepare for ...

Never store garlic confit at room temperature, as this can promote the growth of Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that produces potentially deadly neurotoxins. To minimize the risk of botulism, ...

What happens when you cook steak using a lost French technique from over 100 years ago? I put it to the test, using wagyu fat, garlic confit, and slow-cooked perfection to see if this method still ...

Celebrity MasterChef challenges contestants with an overnight cooking task, where methods like fermentation and confit were used. Archana struggles with her fermented dough and faces criticism from ...

Alice Zaslavsky is the host of A Bite To Eat with Alice, weeknights at 5pm on ABC TV and anytime on ABC iview. Alice is the resident culinary correspondent for ABC News Breakfast and ABC Radio, a food ...

Canned tuna is reliable, but it's hardly a glamorous lunch (unless you're a cat). It often contains less mercury than fresh tuna fillets, but fresh or smoked tuna tends to have a better reputation for ...

A popular gym that hired ex-convicts as personal trainers to give them a second chance at life will shut down at the end of the week. Confit - which stood for 'convict fitness' and operated in ...