Topic: Culinary Arts

Employee benefits: Rising costs will eat into your paycheck

Businesses are restoring employee benefits eliminated during the recession. But other employee benefits are going to cost workers extra.

Culinary schools: Are some not worth the dough?

Culinary schools reach pending settlement with dissatisfied students, who complained culinary schools lured them in with false promises.

6 top food memoirs

In this era of the superstar chef there is no shortage of food-related memoirs, all telling the stories of how these many culinary geniuses found their calling. However, only a handful have the flavor and style that make them stand out from the pack. Here are six that we're calling the best.

Gen Y becomes Gen G – the gourmet generation

For many young people, cooking is the hot new trend – becoming at once theater, entertainment, self-definition, status, and creative expression. Why Millennials wield spatulas and smoked paprika.

America's new culinary renaissance

We're becoming a nation of food fanatics, signing up for cooking classes, turning into gourmets in the kitchen, and making dining in or out the equivalent of a cultural event. Is America the new France?

Affordable colleges: a new tool for cost comparison

Affordable colleges might be easier to track down now with a new online tool out from the US Department of Education, which compares the cost of attending different kinds of institutions. We put together a list of the most and least expensive 4-year or longer institutions, in three categories: public institutions, not-for-profit institutions, and for-profit institutions. Prices are based on the "net cost" of each, which is the average price after grants or scholarship aid is subtracted from the total cost of attendance. Often, the average net cost is quite different from an institution's listed tuition. The numbers here are based on costs for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Tips for cake decorating with fondant

Baking and decorating your own cake will give you a real feeling of accomplishment.

Hereafter: movie review

Director Clint Eastwood's moody 'Hereafter' tries hard, but veers uncomfortably close to quackery.

3 promising books for October

It's fall – when our thoughts turn to books. If you're looking for some good literary companionship for these shorter days and longer nights, here are three attractive titles coming this October.

Top Chef winner makes his mark in tough industry

Top Chef winner Kevin Sbraga has a job, but his fellow chefs face a hard time finding one.

Guest blog: Foodista launches a "crowd-sourced" cookbook

Classic book review: My Life in France

One simple, perfect French meal changed the life of Julia Childs.

Chefs in the making

Cooking schools help teens build culinary skills and confidence.

Soup is good

Although she makes her own sauces, her cupboard stores a soup can or two.

Fall mushroom festivals, hunts, and dinners

College cooking beyond ramen

To save money and time, many college students cook creatively in their dorms.

Serve the People

A Chinese-American journalist steps into the heat and adventure of Beijing's kitchens.

Upgrade your culinary skills while on vacation.

Try taking a cooking class with a regional chef.

Cooking class getaways

In elegant locales, top chefs offer courses on the art of cooking.