Passover is four weeks away, so tonight my mother and I started putting together our menu. I'll be making gefilte fish, as I always do, plus my vegetarian matzoh balls and a Middle Eastern-inflected salad of butter lettuce with grapefruit and avocado. We'll have classic Ashkenazi charoset, of course...

It's hard to believe, but there's less than a week left until Christmas, and only 4 days until Hanukkah. If you need last-minute advice, come visit the Epicurious Chat Room this coming Friday (12/19) from noon to 1pm, when our editor-in-chief, Tanya Wenman Steel, and I will be answering questions. L...

Yesterday, we received an interesting press release: Jarden Home Brands, makers of the Ball brand of products for home preserving, have seen retail sales rise 28 percent since this time last year. They attribute the increase to consumers doing more canning as a money-saving measure in a weak economy...