I've been cooking off and on both professionally and at home for the last 15 years, but chocolate has never interested me. It always seemed too finicky, too exacting, too fickle a food to fuss with.

Q I wonder what you can tell me about this antique mold of a deer. I got it at an estate sale of a woman who was a well-known baker and cookbook collector. The three parts fit together but do not ...

Undeterred by this feedback, Nagoya-based food manufacturer Meito Co. pressed ahead and launched a make-your-own beetle larva ...