Just about every night this time of year, the most seductive smell breezes into my apartment like a taunt. Somewhere some neighbor has fired up a hardwood grill for dinner while I’m trapped with ...

Trim the fat off of the sides of duck leaving it attached to the breast. Score the remaining fat in a checker board design. Mix together the cloves, shallot and canola oil in a small mixing bowl.

As soon as it's warm enough to fire up the grill, cookout season has begun. Turn on Wendy Rene's "Bar-B-Q" (the ultimate outdoor cooking song) and dig out that bag of woodchips. It's time to smoke ...

Tea smoking, a cooking technique used in China, bears no resemblance to smoking meats and fish in the Western world. For one thing, no wood chips are used; for another, the result is a very subtle ...