You don't need to be a professional chef to pull off these impressive kitchen moves—but one wrong move could ruin the whole performance.

BORN INVietnam in 1969, resettled with her family in the U.S. at age six and raised in Southern California, Andrea Nguyen has spent a lifetime learning Vietnamese cuisine. Her greatest teacher remains ...

RECENTLY, A WELL-MEANING person recommended Sharon Brenner’s “A Pie Project”—a digital cookbook devoted solely to Greek pies—specifically, the part where I could learn how to make phyllo dough from ...