At Manresa in Los Gatos, executive chef-owner David Kinch frequently uses this simple, classic method to prepare abalone before adding more complex flourishes. For ease, he recommends that home cooks ...

FOOD FESTS: Ice cream festivals? Not uncommon. Heck, we even see them pop in the wintertime, which just seems audacious to us. Like. Playing with the rules or something. Wine festivals? Lots of those, ...

In this unlikeliest of settings–a shopping-mall restaurant, just off the interstate in the suburban sprawl that is Los Angeles–royalty had deigned to meet with commoners. Master chef Yeung Koon Yat, ...

We are just weeks away from the Culinary Institute of America’s Champagne Dinner in Bocuse. A recent morning finds me writing the prep list and getting ready to order our products for the dinner. I ...

Q: My husband and I dive for abalone in Humboldt, where we live. If we don’t consume them right away, we freeze them whole in the shell, as the local wildlife officer advised us years ago. I also work ...

White abalone, the most succulent and rarest of California’s abalone populations, began receiving federal protection as an endangered species Tuesday. The abalone have been off-limits to fishing for ...