It's officially that time of year: soup season. If you're making French onion soup at home, make sure you're cutting your ...

Learning how to cut onions is a crucial tenant of home cooking awesomeness—because onions are such a versatile, complex addition—or base—for your favorite meals, from risotto to tacos. Slicing and ...

This basic technique works well for chopping onions or dicing them into cubes. You can also get a finer dice with thinner slices. “If I want to brunoise (a very fine dice), I will leave the stem on ...

Caramelizing onions are a simple way to incorporate some texture as well as sweet and savory flavors to a dish.

Onions can be cut by slicing, dicing, mincing, or by cutting into rings and wedges. Be sure to use a sharp chef's knife to help prevent eye irritation.

There are many varieties of onions, all with different flavor profiles and uses, though each helps to build the base of a savory, aromatic dish. Onions can be sliced, diced, wedged, or halved, but ...

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, I used to work behind the scenes with Julia Child during her appearances on “Good Morning America.” It was my job to prepare the food she would put before the cameras. Once, ...

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, I used to work behind the scenes with Julia Child during her appearances on “Good Morning America.” It was my job to prepare the food she would put before the cameras. Once, ...

Toward the end of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt,” a saga of the self under siege, we find Gynt deep in the forest, peeling a wild onion. He compares his many selves – cheat, shipwreck survivor, liar, ...

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Usually, when I cut an onion in half, I cut through the "poles," so there is a bit of root-end on either half holding the half onion together. My housemate, when cutting an onion in half, slices ...