Jenn Garbee

As we wrap up our holiday cookie recipe roundups this week (not to worry, we promise more to come after the New Year, as cookie diets are all the rage), we wanted something to really impress your Christmas Eve guests: French-style macarons. So for this week's Name That Pastry Chef,......

This wasn't the greatest year for "keeper" cookbooks. Are you really going to whip up fussy 6-hour chicken wings on Monday game nights and weekend beef stew that takes so long to make you could drive to the French Laundry and back before it's ready? Well, maybe. It turns out......

As the Christmas week countdown has begun, we're respecting your need to dash out for last-minute holiday shopping by providing this iPhone-friendly Name That Pastry Chef single-pager. In between online sweater shopping for dad (sweaters are like caviar: when in doubt, go with classic black), tell us who you think......

Ginger cookies, gingerbread, ginger snaps -- same name (sort of), vastly different holiday cookies. Mozza's gingerbread Pain d'Épices cookies are more like cute little ginger spice cakes in piglet form, the snickerdoodles from Akasha are so heavily spiced with ginger you might even forget they're vegan, and the gingersnap recipe......

The million dollar question this time of year is not where to find strega for your chocolate mousse cake, but what night does Hanukkah really begin, anyway? Tonight. Which means that you've got until around 5:00 to come up with something riveting to take to Shabbat dinner. Your Aunt Erma......

Firestone Vineyards is celebrating the launch of its new wine label, Firestone Discoveries, by offering to pay you $1,000 to hike Peru's Inca Trail to Machu Picchu this spring. You'll be accompanied by a yet-undisclosed guest chef who promises to keep you well fed and hydrated with cases of the......

We strive to keep our political promises, so we're putting that vegan snickerdoodle recipe on this year's holiday bill early. Akasha Richmond's version at her namesake restaurant is so heavily spiced with ginger, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves that even the vegan-averse will hardly miss the buttery flavor of the original......

It's all about flushed faces and holiday releases this time of year at The Bruery. As last year's release was dubbed Partridge in a Pear Tree, this year's Twelve Days ale has been christened -- surprise, surprise -- 2 Turtle Doves. The saccharine allusions get better, as even the flavor......

To help you find the just the right cookie for your holiday baking spree, we're calling up chefs around town for their favorites. Over the next few weeks you'll find recipes for buttery sugar and chewy molasses cookies -- even vegan snickerdoodles, if you must (we run a Democratic Cookie......