Pot of rice cooking in water on a stove - Grace Cary/Getty Images Rice is one of the simpler and more accessible ingredients to cook, yet it's still somehow easy to get it wrong. It's not like cooking ...

A person scoops cooked white rice from a black pot with a wooden spoon - kazoka/Shutterstock Cooking rice feels deceptively simple until you realize the instructions on the bag don't scale. Double the ...

Will Michael Ruhlman turn the cookbook industry on its ear with his latest book? That remains to be seen. One thing is certain, though: "Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking" ...

We’ve been playing with the Ratio app for a bit, and we must say, we’re impressed. If you are into cooking, or if you want to get into cooking, this is one of those apps that comes out and sets you ...

Read more from Slate’s Food issue. “There are hundreds of thousands of recipes out there, but few of them help you to be a better cook in any substantial way,” Michael Ruhlman writes in the preface to ...

May the kitchen gods and their tweeting fooderati friends forgive me for what I am about to opine: Michael Ruhlman's new book will not liberate the masses from the tyranny of recipes, which is its ...

Cooking rice feels deceptively simple until you realize the instructions on the bag don't scale. Double the rice and water, and somehow it turns out gluey or undercooked. The missing piece is the ...