Video: How to Make Pasta with Jean-Paul Bourgeois

This is a recipe to make a basic pasta dough. The recipe itself is open-ended due to the various ways you can work with your dough. You can roll it out by hand, hand-crank like in the video, or cut with an electric tool that connects to a KitchenAid. You could also cut it with a knife, hand-shape, or stuff it with a flavorful filling. Consider these instructions as a blank canvas for your homemade pasta-making pursuits. After a quick boil, this...

How to Make Bitters

Bitterness is one of the nastiest traits in a person, but the flavor version shouldn't have the same bad rap. Bitter foods aren’t things we’re often compelled to eat piles of, like sweet or salty snacks, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn to love a burst of bitterness here and there. It’s thought that plants evolved to produce bitter flavors as protection against predators such as us hominids. These bitter compounds have all kinds of medicinal...

How to Make Sauerkraut

Making sauerkraut is similar to making charcuterie—salt and time are the key ingredients. Unlike charcuterie, however, sauerkraut (or any fermented vegetable) is a little more forgiving in the process. Sauerkraut is simply fermented cabbage with or without spices. Typically, chefs will include caraway seed and juniper berry. The basic flow of making sauerkraut goes something like this: slice the cabbage, add salt, massage to extract as much water...