Chile powder, chili powder. Seems like a small difference, right? Maybe one you wouldn’t even notice at the grocery store, in the glaring lights of the spice aisle? Welp, read carefully, friends: ...

The difference between chile powder with an "e" and chili powder with an "i" is not a matter of phonetics, like tomato, tomahto. They are not the same ingredient. As a food editor, when I review the ...

Kristin Donnelly is a writer with nearly two decades of experience crafting stories and recipes for editorial publications, books, and brands. She was a food editor at Food & Wine for eight years.

When I crave the zing and zest of summer desserts but don’t have access to fresh fruit, I turn to the freeze-dried versions. These weightless dehydrated fruit pieces span all seasonal produce, from ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Like any millennial who grew up inundated with ...

Yesterday, I talked about how to turn dried, Mexican chiles into powder or paste that can be used in any number of dishes. Today, we’re going to put those ingredients to use in a batch of chili con ...

I’m only just wrapping my head around my recent discovery that a lot of paprika is made from bell peppers. And I’m learning to accept all the years I wasted not knowing how the lids of spice jars ...