When you press down on your skin for a few seconds and move your finger away, does that area of skin look lighter before it returns to its normal color? This is called blanching. Some social media ...

The original Roman gourmet Apicius got straight to the heart of the pleasure we derive from food when he said, "We eat first with our eyes" back in the first century A.D. A tremendous portion of food ...

Q: Whenever I see a recipe for tomato sauce or peach pie, it always says to blanch the fruit in boiling water to remove the skins. Sometimes the recipe says to "plunge in ice water" afterward and ...

Not knowing how to boil water is the standard shorthand for culinary incompetence. There are, in fact, important lessons to learn from blanching, a basic technique that lies only one ingredient and ...

Blanching spinach is equally important, especially if you plan to store it for later. This process helps maintain its bright ...

OK kids, if you want to make your parents (or maybe grandparents by this time) look stupid, just ask them about that diet they were on way back when, where they were allowed to eat nothing but cabbage ...