What could be more pedestrian -- and less glamorous -- than onions, carrots and celery? Yet mirepoix, the simple trinity of ordinary vegetables cut into even dice, forms the foundation of a tremendous ...

What could be more pedestrian -- and less glamorous -- than onions, carrots and celery? Yet mirepoix, the simple trinity of ordinary vegetables cut into even dice, forms the foundation of a tremendous ...

Early in my marriage, I learned to keep my husband out of the kitchen while I was cooking. The first time he saw me dicing celery to put in his mother’s homemade potato soup recipe, he exclaimed, “Mom ...