What to add to pasta water is an important decision, whether you make pasta salad, pasta casserole, or classic pasta ...

You've been cooking pasta for years, maybe decades. Water, salt, noodles. Simple enough, right? Here's the thing: that pot of bubbling water holds far more potential than most of us realize.

Before I went to college, I went to Italy. In restaurants shadowed by Milan’s Duomo, I learned that pasta was a primi piatti — a first course, not a main. In our tiny apartment kitchen, my Italian ...

Alton Brown has built his culinary career on asking one question: How can this be done better? Over the years, the television host, author, and food scientist has experimented with different ways to ...