Most of us have used it in the kitchen before, but what is cornstarch, exactly? Cornstarch isn’t technically flour, per se, but it is a starchy carbohydrate that can be used in many different ways.

Cornstarch and corn flour, despite both originating from corn, have distinct roles in recipes due to their varying nutritional compositions. Corn flour, with its protein, fiber, and whole-corn ...

I was enjoying one of the first ears of local corn last night when a childhood memory came back to me. It's the mid-1960s: I’m sitting with my brothers, Michael and Lee, at the round, avocado-green ...

Contributor Stephanie Burt has shelves of community cookbooks, those spiral bound snapshots of the collected recipes from a church group, Junior League or another social organization. They hold a lot ...

This easy salad comes together quickly and works as a side dish, a great topping for tacos, or as an appetizer with tortilla chips. Think of this as a medley of the most exciting parts of a vegetarian ...

Cornstarch is a low-cost, readily available, humble miracle found in the baking aisle of just about every supermarket and grocery store in the country, and online. Extracted from corn and then ...