The most effective overall strategy to control sodium intake is to cook food at home as often as possible using fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, low-fat dairy products, fresh meat, poultry, and fish.

CNN: How to be sodium savvy

Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed, is interested less in food as something to cook than as the binding and unifying element in marriage, dinner parties, and friendship.

NEWYORKER: Julie & Julia

This is a dream destination for everyone who loves to eat, cook and shop for food, particularly as an ever-increasing number of cooking courses and food-focussed walking tours are on offer.

BBC: Top five Istanbul cooking courses and food tours

On the competition circuit, where hundreds of portly men with beards cook essentially the same terrible food (as a certified judge, believe me, I know), originality is as frightening as a hand reaching up out of a freshly dug grave.

WSJ: The New Barbecue

We use the bark to wrap things up, or as oven gloves, to make canoes, or to cook food in.

BBC: Australia��s Top End

The figures showed more than 16% of primary schools did not have the facilities to cook hot meals, with food either transported from other locations or menus limited to cold food such as sandwiches.

BBC: School lunches take-up increases

As a public service, NPR asked some of their favorite chefs to teach you how to cook the kind of food that graces the candidates' plates when they eat out.

NPR: A Meal Fit For A Candidate: John McCain