was the destination my digits led me to where I almost immediately stumbled onto a pretty cool feature of theirs called "Culinary SOS." Evidently readers can write the feature's lead with a request ...

Dear SOS: I am a huge fan of the vanilla cupcakes at Joan’s on Third. I have tried all the other cupcake spots in town, and they can’t compare. Is there any way you can obtain the recipe? Thanks.

It’s a simple, if dramatic, presentation: A butterflied whole branzino is marinated with turmeric, garlic and spicy Thai chiles just long enough for the flavors to infuse, 30 minutes or so. The fish ...

The best waffles commercially available, I am prepared to state, come from Brown Sugar Kitchen, a small, fragrant breakfast diner on Mandela Parkway in West Oakland. The waffles, Tanya Holland’s ...

My middle school home economics class was more like alchemy. Our first assignment was to bake chocolate chip cookies from the recipe on the package. I carefully preheated the oven, measured ...

Dear SOS: I'd love to have the recipe for the pimiento cheese appetizer served at Magnolias in Charleston, S.C. Thanks! — Leslie Kenan, Arcadia Dear Leslie: Magnolias was happy to share its take on ...

Dear SOS: I am a huge fan of the vanilla cupcakes at Joan's on Third. I have tried all the other cupcake spots in town, and they can't compare. Is there any way you can obtain the recipe? Thanks. - ...

I’m having friends over for Memorial Day weekend and want to serve homemade ice cream for dessert, but don’t have an ice cream machine. Any suggestions? Brandon Storms, Los Angeles Semifreddo, a ...

What do you think are the most popular recipe requests we get? No, not fried chicken or layer cake or, sorry, kale salad. They’re for salad dressing. Maybe because so many people are oddly perplexed ...

ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, food director and host Chris Morocco is joined by food editor Shilpa Uskokovic to help callers Brian and Claire get out of their boring fish recipe rut. Brian and ...