You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn’t one. Sichuan pepper isn’t a peppercorn. Rather, it is the dried rind of ...

There were days a couple of years ago when you might have spotted Lee Hefter, executive chef of Spago Beverly Hills, prowling through shops in Chinatown searching for an ingredient that then was ...

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn't one. Though it resembles black peppercorns, Sichuan pepper isn't a ...

Chinese restaurants are very common in metro Detroit. Many of these restaurants have similar menus with recognizable dishes like almond boneless chicken (a dish with roots in Detroit not China), ...

Subdued. Meditative. Elegant. These are not adjectives most Long Islanders ascribe to Chinese restaurants in general and Sichuan restaurants in particular. But Kitchen Melody, which was opened late ...

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn’t one. Though it resembles and is used similar to black peppercorns, ...

Chinese food in Orange County comes in many guises, from the Beijing-inspired cooking at Peking in Westminster to the tongue-numbing, chili and peppercorn-laced hot pots of Sichuan Impression in ...

Readers frequently ask me about my favorite Chinese restaurant. My answer is a neighborhood, not a specific restaurant. Along a one-mile stretch of South Tacoma Way, in a Lakewood neighborhood known ...

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn’t one. Though it resembles and is used similar to black peppercorns, ...

You can call it a peppercorn all you like, but the peppery ingredient that puts the buzz in Sichuan-style cooking actually isn't one. Though it resembles and is used similar to black peppercorns, ...