The art of pairing pasta and sauce is often misunderstood. This week on Taste Matters, Mitchell Davis talks noodles with Maureen B. Fant, author of the recent Sauces Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way with Oretta Zanini De Vita. Tune into this episode to hear how Maureen's classical studies brought...

Why are canned black olives so bad? This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez are talking about some of the cocktails they're making with crab apples for Martha Stewart's American Made event. Hear how olives for canning are preserved using huge vats of lactic and acetic acid...

Chef Michael Solomonov takes his birthright to heart. Born in Israel, raised in Pittsburg, it wasn't until his late teens that Michael returned to his homeland and his inner cuisine spoke to him. He didn't speak Hebrew, so he learned to bake burekas (spinach pies) innately. Eventually making way to...

Dave returns to the studio this week with tales of dog sledding in Sweden and opening up his new bar, Booker and Dax, in New York. Tune in to learn how to keep your meatballs from falling apart, what the Dextrose Equivalent scale is and how to use it, as...