Tricia Cornell

Need a reason to taste-test the hot-chocolate scene? Antioxidants can be your alibi.

Cornmeal, commerce, and one woman’s quixotic quest for the perfect ingredient

Sharp-tongued, opinionated, and able to discern the proportions of sweetness, acidity, salt, and bitterness in a single bite of food, they’re the gifted tasters whose palates help create the flavors of our lives.