Love food? Want to broaden your culinary horizons? These five international cuisines provide an excellent starting place.

Read how cooking at home rather than eating out can help you live longer, reduce the risk of cancer and improve family dynamics. Not only has cooking at home become the hip choice, it's also become the smart choice.

Look for locally produced meat and produce, Peruvian and Korean selections and an increasing number of 'fast-cas' restaurants to be the top restaurant trends.

What's all the fuss about cooking with copper pots? Chefs all across the country are waking up to the advantages of copper cookware, and the reasons why are more interesting than you might expect.

Read more about how your interest and expertise in craft beers could lead to a new career as a beer sommelier or cicerone. Beer professionals who understand beer and how to pair it with food should be in high demand as craft, microbrews and artisanal beers become increasingly popular.

Sommelier training involves much more than learning how to pair wine with food. Culinary students and seasoned veterans alike use this professional development path to create elegant, memorable moments for their patrons. Service professionals need more than just a love of wine to become a sommelier. The profession requires an understanding of all types of alcoholic beverages, along with the ability to put both the heritage and history of wine into context.

What's the difference between a regular chef and a gastromolecular chef? Although there's some controversy about the art of molecular gastronomy, there are more similarities than differences between the two.

Don't let stress about money or working keep you from realizing your culinary school dreams. There are many ways to get a culinary arts degree without starving yourself or quitting your job.

What makes pizza so popular? Chefs and culinary students around the world are learning that the answer is umami, the newly official "fifth taste."

What happens to women who leave their culinary schools behind to pursue restaurant careers in wine?