English cuisine has always been laughed at by its European neighbors as bland, greasy and overcooked. This may or not be true, but one thing is for sure—not one of our European neighbors’ cuisines can ...

Moist, gooey and sticky - there is no better way to describe sticky toffee pudding, the traditional British dessert. In 2004, Tracy Wilkinson-Claros, owner of The Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., moved from ...

I decided to make the Olympics a cultural experience at home and created a taste of London by preparing an old English late-summer dessert called Summer Pudding. For the Brits, the word “pudding” ...

Alexandra Stafford’s new book, “Bread Toast Crumbs” (Clarkson Potter, $30) could inspire even the most reluctant baker to spend the day making bread. But my summertime kitchen is hot and the beach ...

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Editor's note: This story was originally published Dec. 12, 2016. We're bringing it back so that you'll have additional ideas for holiday cooking. There are some scents that have the power to inspire ...

In Britain the term pudding means dessert. So if you see a sticky toffee pudding or Christmas pudding on an American restaurant menu don't expect anything akin to a cup of Jell-O smoothness. But like ...

Journalist Kate Colquhoun traces the origins of traditional Christmas foods, such as English pudding, the boiled dessert made with suet or lard, in Taste : The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking.