If looking at your new kitchen has you dreaming about hosting dinner parties and whipping up your favorite recipes, you’ll want to create a kitchen essentials list before you move into your new home.

Shouting “corner!” when you’re making microwave popcorn isn’t helpful, but there are some protocols and tricks from commercial kitchens you can—and should—adopt at home. Jeff Somers is a freelancer ...

Starting Nov. 1, people in L.A. County will be able to legally sell home-cooked meals. Nearby, Riverside County has permitted home restaurants like these for the past five years. But what happens when ...

Sonoma County has always had a quiet side hustle economy. You just didn’t used to be able to taste it. A jar of jam passed across a fence. A dozen eggs left in a cooler with a coffee can for cash. A ...