“What is that you so beautifully do?” Henry James is said to have once asked someone, somewhere or other. And for no tribe of workers does the question make more sense than for book editors. What is ...

Betty Liu is not a formally-trained chef — but that didn't stop her from writing one of my favorite cookbooks of the year. Liu, currently in training to be a surgeon, is a two-time cookbook author who ...

But she came to that lesson a few years after first attempting to make pasta with an elaborate recipe for artichoke ravioli from The French Laundry’s cookbook (which she admits was super ambitious and ...