Place bacon in the freezer for 10-15 minutes before preparing to make it easier to dice. Toss spinach with baking soda in a bowl and set aside. Dice bacon small and place into a wide-bottomed pot or ...

Margaret M. Johnson offers this Irish adaptation of Oysters Rockefeller in The New Irish Table (Chronicle Books 2003). Bacon and cabbage -- far more Irish than corned beef and cabbage -- is ...

The New Orleans love affair with the oyster reaches its perennial peak in the cooler months, and it finds its fullest expression at the raw bar. But the return of summer doesn’t put this into ...

Nobody can argue that it took a supreme act of desperation or hunger to be the first person to look at an oyster and think there might be something tasty inside. But I argue the second person to ...