Like many Americans, I grew up associating Italian meals with pasta and bread. The first time I traveled in northern Italy, I ...

This dish delivers the festive drama of the flip and makes a gorgeous vegetarian centerpiece for the holidays.

The Italian way with polenta, topped with saucy vegetables or meat, might have been the original grain bowl. When you tire of rice, barley, wheat berries or the like, polenta is another delicious way ...

This simple recipe is a marriage of two even simpler foods, that add up to one flavorful appetizer, main dish or side. This would be welcome any time from breakfast to lunch to dinner, and also a nice ...

This recipe is my riff on one from Virginia Willis’s new book, “Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover’s Tour of the Global South” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in which she explores Southern ...

Jeanine Donofrio, the Austin, Texas food writer behind the Love & Lemons blog, has released her debut cookbook. “The Love & Lemons Cookbook” (Avery, $35, 295 pages) is filled with the type of ...

You can go to a fancy store and buy a fancy 24-ounce bag of cornmeal for polenta, and it will cost you $3.99. I think that’s hilarious. In recent years, chefs at many of the best restaurants have ...

Braised Collard Greens With Chicken Sausage Over Polenta. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post) This recipe is my riff on one from Virginia Willis’ new book, “Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food ...