In recent years, the trend in cookbook writing is to tell a restaurant’s story alongside the recipes that epitomize the cooking. The story of a place’s growth is, naturally, intricately linked to the ...

When my father took over a takeout restaurant in Phoenix in the early 1990s, the menu quickly grew from 18 dishes to over 50. Though beyond impractical and bordering on ridiculous for such a small ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I eat a lot of plant-based meals, but often the fact that they don’t contain meat is beside the point. So it’s one of my pet peeves when a recipe, restaurant ...

Yu Bo and his wife, Dai Shuang, gained international fame with their restaurant Yu’s Family Kitchen in Chengdu, China; ⁠consuming the painstakingly crafted and beautiful 16 cold dishes that begin ...

Uncover the origin of this popular and spicy Chinese dish. Have your ingredients ready before you begin - stir fry cooks fast. I love a dish with a good story behind it, and Mapo Tofu is a legendary ...

Recipe from chef Cara Stadler of Tao Yuan in Brunswick and Bao Bao Dumpling House in Portland. This recipe requires a number of specialty ingredients; find them at Asian markets in Portland (note: ...

"As with many famous Chinese dishes, this one has a story, and like the others, it's been told by so many people over so many years that you have to question its truth. Legend has it that Mapo Dofu is ...

This image shows a recipe for Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu from the cookbook "The Wok: Recipies and Techniques," by J. Kenji López-Alt. (J. Kenji López-Alt/W. W. Norton & Company via AP) J. Kenji ...

This recipe for Chinese Mapo Tofu is a classic, spicy, numbing, saucy tofu dish that comes together in 20 minutes. It's bold, ...

Famed Chinese chef Yu Bo’s mapo tofu takes the spicy, hearty and pleasingly numbing dish and kicks it into a higher gear. The addition of avocado, a California twist, is — and I don’t always love this ...