Making a recent dinner, my wife Elisabeth put together Sohla El-Waylly's “hot and tingly” smashed cucumber salad, a wisp of a recipe that combines favorite ingredients like cukes, chili crisp, salt, ...

Some 15 to 20 years ago, MSG was nothing less than a nutritional bogeyman. When I was a kid, the word was spoken in hushed tones like a swear word or a sex term, invoked to strike fear into the hearts ...