There is a lot of confusion about tamarind products.

Join Julia Moskin and Norman King of Southern Living here at 8 p.m. Eastern for a live video chat on frying.

Readers share their experiences trying out this month’s Recipe Lab selection, Southern fried chicken, in their own kitchens.

Melissa Clark’s recipe can be doubled to feed more.

Try your hand at making a recipe for fried chicken, then take part in this month’s Recipe Lab video chat with Norman King, a lifelong Southerner and a food editor at Southern Living.

This salad hits all the requisite flavor and textural notes – sweet, salty, tangy, fresh, crisp, soft and rich.

Use fresh or canned tomatoes to make shakshuka, an Israeli baked egg and tomato dish.

A primer on how to cook it.

Michael Moss and Michael Pollan on weeknight cooking on a tight schedule.

The close-up photograph brings someone deeper into a subject.