Every year, when the holiday season rolls in and my kitchen starts to look like a bakery, I’m reminded that some of the best Christmas cookies are also the simplest. Between school concerts, holiday ...

You're probably accustomed to hearing about – and may have been affected by – data breaches that provide hackers with oodles of usernames and passwords to people ...

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I didn’t grow up in a baking household. As the Asian immigrant lore goes, our oven (and dishwasher, while we’re at it) was, indeed, used primarily for storage. That isn’t to say that we didn’t love ...

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While the weather may be (in)famously temperate, you can almost always tell what season it is in Southern California by the produce at the markets. Come the shorter, if not much colder, days of winter ...

Baking is built around tradition: Staple ingredients. Precise measurements. Generational recipes. Butter. But the humble cookie both honors its history and defies it, traversing cultures, continents, ...

The Tulsa Police Financial Crimes Unit has reported a surge in "Account Hack" scams over recent months. These scams involve unsolicited calls or texts from individuals posing as bank representatives.

Cookie baking can lead to a surprising amount of mess, so I rely on this one-bowl hack to make any cookie dough in just one bowl and cut down on the dishes. To one-bowl any cookie, ignore the ...