Writing about Italian food can be dangerous.

By the time Christmas rolls around at our house, we're tired of turkey and ham, so a roast of some other kind of meat fits the bill for dinner.

Are you partied out? Does the thought of tucking into yet another fat-drenched, cranberry-infused and gravy-drowned holiday dish have you running for the Alka-Seltzer?

The day after Thanksgiving, our bellies full of all the turkey, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce two slices of toasted bread can hold, I turn to my husband, Dan, lying in bed, the newspaper halfheartedly dangling from his hands. "What are we going to do about those %$#*&-ing Christmas cookies?" I ask. Dan groans. If I had any mercy for my husband, I wouldn't let this question linger in the ...

Are you partied out? Does the thought of tucking into yet another fat-drenched, cranberry-infused and gravy-drowned holiday dish have you running for the Alka-Seltzer?

Make sure you buy a big turkey this year, because you'll want plenty left over to make these tasty post-holiday recipes.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas past and New Year upon us there is one food dish whose popularity will quickly wane until the Fall of the coming year.

Overcooked meat? Lumpy custard? Justine Costigan has five tips to avoid knocking the stuffing out of your Christmas fare.

For many apartment dwellers, the bane of a small kitchen is a daily frustration but especially during the??holidays, it's easy to feel the squeeze as putting together the celebratory meal for friends and family becomes a reality. In a small space efficiency is critical and planning the holiday meal preparations even more important. Two of ...

Authors/chefs/restaurateurs Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow have given the meatball a soul in their new "Meatball Shop Cookbook." What was once a golf ball-sized hit of protein, usually hamburger, usually aswim in a red sauce, is now a luscious chameleon. Holzman and Chernow have explored the bounds of the meatball and determined it to be limitless.