From a classic culinary school method to tool-specific techniques like using a box grater or mandoline, here’s how ...

Learning how to cut onions is a crucial tenant of home cooking awesomeness—because onions are such a versatile, complex addition—or base—for your favorite meals, from risotto to tacos. Slicing and ...

There are many varieties of onions, all with different flavor profiles and uses, though each helps to build the base of a savory, aromatic dish. Onions can be sliced, diced, wedged, or halved, but ...

Cutting an onion can feel like trying to escape a maze, blindfolded. One wrong turn—or slice—can send you swiftly down the wrong path. And then there are all of the different verbs—you can slice an ...

Many of us love onions. In fact, the average American eats about 22 pounds of onions per year! But what we don’t love is the way onions make our eyes burn and tear when we slice into them. That's why ...

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, I used to work behind the scenes with Julia Child during her appearances on “Good Morning America.” It was my job to prepare the food she would put before the cameras. Once, ...

Toward the end of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt,” a saga of the self under siege, we find Gynt deep in the forest, peeling a wild onion. He compares his many selves – cheat, shipwreck survivor, liar, ...

This simple Alsatian onion pie gets a tremendous amount of flavor from onions, which are cooked slowly in a small amount of bacon fat. (J.M. Hirsch/Associated Press) Back in the 1980s and ’90s, I used ...