Cooking and cookbooks

How a top New York chef makes her pasta salad so much better

Tapenade pasta salad. To dress your pasta salad for the moment it’ll be eaten, not the moment it’s made, treat it as you would a pan of pasta.

The tomato salad you have been waiting for – with a doenjang twist

Enjoy this tomato salad alongside a richer main dish, such as grilled steak, pork or chicken.

Singapore American School students launch cookbook of migrant worker recipes

At The Same Table project leaders Tanya Arora (third from left) and Aahana Mittal (fourth from left) with some of the cooks featured in the cookbook.

How to make butter tteok: The viral crunchy, buttery cakes taking the internet by storm

Butter rice cakes have taken the internet by storm, especially in South Korea.

Once a stickler for cooking rules, Terry Tan relaxes his stance

Cookbook author Terry Tan with his new book, Terry Tan’s Peranakan Classics. It is an update of his first cookbook, published in 1981.

4 ways to make the juiciest grilled chicken

Lemon-garlic grilled chicken breasts.

7 ways to make the best steak of your life

Seared bone-in rib-eye steaks.

How to make the best buttermilk pancakes

A golden stack of pancakes, slicked with butter is a perfect way to start the day.

Malaysian-American contestant apologises for wrongly pronouncing roti canai on MasterChef

Malaysian-American MasterChef contestant Jaime Tan pronounced roti canai with a hard “k” sound rather than the traditional “ch”.

Finding Joy

Want to know what’s really going on in our children’s lives? Cook for them

Conversations over dinner have inculcated open communication in his family, says the writer.

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