It's the beginning of truffle season, and if you're fortunate to have access to fresh truffles, here are some tips for storage:

Here's a tip just in time for the holidays from our wonderful friend Willi (who gets 100 Cooks' Club Points for submitting a tip we used.)

As the saying goes, “everything is better with Bacon!” A chef friend calls it “Vitamin P” ...essential to a daily balanced diet! But how to cook it?

Alton Brown has two rules when it comes to cooking with wine: Rule 1: Never cook with cooking wine. Rule 2: NEVER COOK WITH COOKING WINE.

These are necessary, but insufficient rules. The Colbrook Kitchen rule is: Never put any alcohol in your food that you wouldn't be willing to consume from a glass.

As you contemplate your Thanksgiving leftovers (after, of course, checking out the Black Friday deals), one of the most popular is turkey soup--you have a roasted turkey carcass with the potential to make a great flavor base for your soup. As you embark on this soup adventure, keep one thing in mind: temperature!

We just had to share this Thanksgiving recipe from a friend's 5 1/2 year old grand niece...

My parents always loved caviar. It's a special treat that they never took for granted. They especially enjoyed it during the holiday season, and my mother had a way to make serving caviar easier.

As we cook more during the Holiday Season, cooking odors inevitably fill the air.

Many of them are wonderful: spicy cookies, roast turkey, mushrooms ....

But other foods taste better than the smell they leave behind (think fish or brussels sprouts). What’s a cook to do?

Here's how to eat your onions, and have them too...

Here are the menu and recipes for a dinner party that we offered, with some wonderful partners, as an auction lot to support a very worthy cause. Our partners were Vivier WInes, a marvelous wine producer that blends the ancient traditions of French winegrowing with the youthfulness and potential of American vineyards and Hip Shakes, a wonderful band featuring Joe Shotwell. Beverly Shotwell was our photographer and amazing helper in all things.