At the dawn of the 20th century, observant Jewish women made pie crusts and other pastries using rendered chicken fat as shortening! They actually fried chicken skins until yellow fat oozed into the ...

Now there's trans fat-free shortening, made of 100 percent palm oil. Conventional shortenings like Crisco are made of vegetable oil that's been hydrogenated, a process that results in unhealthy trans ...

It's difficult to find a more widely known food package recipe than that of the Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. (Except for maybe Campbell's green bean casserole come late November.

Today, pre-Thanksgiving hysteria moves from the bird to the dessert. In The Times, Melissa Clark obsessively tests pie crust methods to conclude, at least for now, that a little duck fat makes the ...