Every jar of paprika sitting in your spice rack right now is ground-up dried pepper. That’s it. No exotic paprika plant, no ...

Despite its relative ubiquity, paprika is still a bit of a confusing spice. Its telltale small flakes and appealingly bright red color are a dead giveaway that it's a form of dried and crushed red ...

Paprika is among the pantry staples that don’t get the respect they deserve. Like bay leaves and turmeric, it has been maligned as one note – or worse. The sentiment goes something like this: Is ...

It turns out, paprika is not its own special plant, but regular Capsicum peppers that have been dried and crushed into powder ...

Sometimes A sauce is more than, well, just a sauce. Discovered for the first time -- on the menu of a restaurant, amid the pages of a cookbook -- it looks ordinary enough. But in one bite such a sauce ...

Traditional sloppy joes are way too sweet and ketchup-y for my taste. I like to think my version is a little more refined — ...