The definitive guide to preparing this purple vegetable. Cook with the freshest eggplants that are firm and medium-sized with glossy, blemish-free skin. Salting an eggplant gets rid of bitter juices ...

For a long time, eggplant was my white whale of summer produce. It was always delicious when I had it in restaurants, but I struggled to get the texture just right when cooking it at home. I suspect ...

C.B. writes, ""I placed first in the Microwave Casserole category with my shrimp-eggplant casserole" in 1986, the same year that Crawfish Zerpa (elsewhere in the archive) won the grand prize. "Also, ...

Things are winding down at my local farmers market. Gone are the tomatoes and tender lettuce greens, the fragrant basil and sweet corn. But just last week I saw a pile of purple and white streaked ...

To salt or not to salt — that is the fundamental eggplant question. Conventional cooking wisdom holds that you should always salt (and drain) eggplant before cooking. And there is some merit to this.