Stories

• The clever cook keeps the broth for herself when poaching beef

• Winston Churchill’s dinner table: Clear soup, cigars and above all, conversation

• Photographer takes voyeuristic peek inside refrigerators

• The politics of food on the campaign trail

• Padma Lakshmi plays Stump the Cook

• The lowdown on low-alcohol wines

• Sea salt farmer captures unique merroir of Mendocino coast

• Why the high menu price? Many farmhands touch each oyster

• Simple seduction in three courses

• Nigella Lawson dishes on ABC’s cooking show, The Taste