If you're like me, God help you, you're a sucker for cheap thrills, like the exciting physiological response that accompanies various items of consumption. Problem is, booze is so 2019, isn't it? On ...

In restaurants across Chengdu, China, there is a singular dish the evokes a tingling response — crispy stir-fried chicken on a plate piled high with thin red chilis. It’s called la zi ji, and as ...

A top-down view of a massive pile of Szechuan peppercorns - Orinoco-art/Getty Images The world of cocktails is incredibly vast and can be as simple or complex as you'd like. While some people prefer ...

Want to learn how to unlock the mouth-numbing, spicy effects of Sichuan peppercorns? Nik Sharma has the best pasta recipe for ...

I’ve been a fan of chef and culinary scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt ever since his first bestselling cookbook, “The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science,” was published in 2015. So like so many ...

There were days a couple of years ago when you might have spotted Lee Hefter, executive chef of Spago Beverly Hills, prowling through shops in Chinatown searching for an ingredient that then was ...

Anyone who’s ever worked with me in the kitchen knows that I like to tinker with dishes for a while before I decide to finally offer them on the menu. But then once I’ve gotten them where I want them ...

If you’re like me, God help you, you’re a sucker for cheap thrills, like the exciting physiological response that accompanies various items of consumption. Problem is, booze is so 2019, isn’t it? On ...