How to buy, store, and cook with the spice, plus a little bit of history.

close-up of cut ginger root - Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography/Getty Images Outside of the people who use ginger like it's salt, we've all been left with two-thirds of a root after making a ...

It's hard to know how to store ginger root to make it last longer. Does it have to go in the fridge, or is it one of those ...

The nicest thing happened to me one day as I rifled through the mail. I got a letter from Dr. C. Eugene Allen, a professor and food scientist at the University of Minnesota who just happened to be a ...