Onigiri—Japanese rice balls—are a classic home-cooked dish that anyone can make. Chef Rika and an expert show us ways to make delicious onigiri, starting from the beginning: cooking the rice.

Editor's note: Last week, The Chronicle began "A Passion for Cooking," personal accounts by some of the Bay Area's leading chefs about why they cook and how their ethnic roots have influenced their ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - From the beginning, cooking baby back ribs is intimidating. Why? Because the slabs of trimmed pork ribs taken from the upper portion of a young hog's rib cage are expensive, $5.29 a ...