Winter storms — like the one New Jersey experienced on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 — can make driving dangerous. It’s often necessary to treat roads with salt to make them safer for drivers and pedestrians.

Last year, in the week before Thanksgiving, I made a solemn promise to you faithful readers. Heed my word, I vowed. This will be the very last time I’ll publish the legendary Kass Turkey Brining ...

Knowing how to brine a turkey could save you (and your family!) from years of dry Thanksgiving turkeys to come. Here are our five easy steps to achieve brining magic. Thanksgiving dinner used to be ...

Brining is similar to marinating, but is primarily focused on moistening the meat as opposed to adding flavor. Brining your Thanksgiving turkey prior to cooking will help ensure you end up with a ...

In my paean to pork a few weeks ago, I made a throwaway reference to brining. Judging from the e-mails that came in asking for more details -- Just how much salt? Exactly how long? And what about ...

Dear Thanksgiving cooks of America: On behalf of food writers everywhere, I apologize. For nearly two decades now, many of us have suggested that you plunge your turkey into a bucket of flavored ...

Brining is a popular method to help add flavor and maintain moisture in your whole turkey and it is mostly used around Thanksgiving, but Chef Bobby Flay says brining turkey breast meat you put in the ...

Every year, about the time little children rush home from school to tell their parents that the Pilgrims were repressive Eurocentric fundamentalists with guns, I receive piteous pleas from readers ...

FROM THE TIMES ARCHIVES — If someone told you to go soak your bird, you might take offense. But it could be the best cooking advice you’ve ever gotten. Brining--essentially soaking meat or poultry in ...