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Cookbook author Adeena Sussman recently joined The Washington Post Food section staff to answer questions about all things edible. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. Q: Joy the Baker has ...

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There’s a special satisfaction in cooking by feel—freestyling it with ingredients, adding a bit of this and a handful of that because you know intuitively that’s the amount the dish you’re tossing ...

The Scoville Scale is a measurement chart used to rate the heat of peppers or other spicy foods. It can also can have a useful application for measuring cybersecurity threats. Cyber-threats are also ...