Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These days, I cook for one (not as sad as it sounds), and pasta is my absolute go-to for nights when I want something comforting, ...

Cooking pasta may often seem to be an art instead of a science – but there’s one way nutritionists back to get the most out of your meal. It turns out that cooking pasta for too long is not advisable.

If it's not tough and chewy, it's reduced to an unpalatable mush—there's certainly a fine art in cooking pasta perfectly al dente. And thanks to scientists and a surprising use of a particle ...

Think you know how to cook pasta? You've probably been doing it wrong your whole life. I'm talking about the traditional method we all learned: fill a giant pot with water, wait forever for it to boil ...

Every kitchen has its rituals: salt the water, wait for a rolling boil, and keep stirring like your dinner depends on it. But lately, cooks, chefs, and even a Nobel Prize-winning physicist have been ...

A food scientist has shared how to upgrade your pasta dishes without any extra ingredients ...

But those seem tame compared to a more recent revelation: it turns out some chefs, including Alton Brown, swear by starting ...

In a new study, researchers examined how salt and cook time shape pasta’s texture — and what pushes it from al dente to “mushy.” ...