Alex Guarnaschelli is an Iron Chef, Food Network celebrity chef, author of Old-School Comfort Food and the executive chef at New York City’s Butter restaurants. Read her PEOPLE.com blog every Tuesday ...

According to The Food Lover’s Companion, sherbet is defined thusly: “Today the term sherbet commonly refers to a frozen mixture of sweetened fruit juice (or other liquid) and water.” It is lighter ...

Sometimes - like right now - it's simply too hot to cook. What we're hoping for is a break in the heat, perhaps a day of soaking rain, a couple of pleasant hours to get outside and do the yardwork, ...

Soft and billowy or sweet and crisp, meringue is a chameleon in the kitchen: Use it as a dessert topping, a magic mix-in that gives rise to dense cakes, even as cookie-like crumbles that lend crunch ...

Sometimes you can have too many cooks in the kitchen, but you can never have too many people gathered around the ice cream maker, waiting for it to work its magic. Homemade ice cream is about blending ...