Brown sugar and soy sauce bubbling on the stove. Chiles sizzling in hot oil. The scent of Sichuan pepper, cassia, ginger, star anise and cardamom in the kitchen. This is Thanksgiving. It starts by ...

The mouth-numbing spice — more popular than ever in the West — remind us why we seek out unfamiliar tastes. Mung bean liang fen (jelly) crowned with raw green Sichuan pepper.Credit...Photograph by ...

In restaurants across Chengdu, China, there is a singular dish the evokes a tingling response — crispy stir-fried chicken on a plate piled high with thin red chilis. It’s called la zi ji, and as ...

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 ...

In restaurants across Chengdu, China, there is a singular dish that evokes a tingling response - crispy stir-fried chicken on a plate piled high with thin red chilis. It’s called la zi ji, and as ...

Sichuan cuisine is world-famous — but stateside, good Sichuan food isn't always easy to find. Many of the region's most famous dishes use Sichuan peppercorns to create the iconic málà (or "spicy and ...