Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. This is part of the "Brain Food 2022-2023: All your food and cooking questions, answered" collection See all stories. The beauty of a ...

Terra cotta cooking vessels. Cooking in terra cotta connects you to a culinary tradition thousands of years old and disseminated by the world’s grandmothers. Be it a wood-fired fish stew simmering in ...

These cute cactus cupcakes are a lot easier to handle than their prickly look-alikes. Chocolate cake is baked in terra-cotta pots and then topped with cookie crumb dirt and a fudgy, chocolate-filled ...

At first glance, the humble terra cotta garden pot isn't anything special. It's been around for thousands of years, used for pottery, roofing, bricks, even sculpture (see the famous warriors and ...

Paula Wolfert of Sonoma has been collecting clay pots for more than 50 years. Known for coaxing recipes out of grandmothers all over the Mediterranean, the cookbook author has a story to tell about ...