Potato soup just got a lot more interesting. 

Fried chicken you just can't mess up.

Step aside, red velvet.

An outcast vegetable scrap gets a makeover.

An all-season pasta sauce made from your pantry, spice rack, and cheese bin -- in the time it takes water to boil. (It's also vegetarian and easily made vegan, if you're into that sort of thing.)

The mysterious powers of corn milk.

Capturing all of tomatoes' greatness, to the last drop.

Because when people get a day off work, they really just want to eat deviled eggs and guacamole, bold salad and equally creamy pasta, and steak. And of course, cake.

Nathan Myhrvold explains the magic behind the one-ingredient "ice cream" that's taken the internet by storm.

On her 100th birthday, Julia Child shows us how to cut zucchini down to size.