Simple flour and baking powder are pantry staples and the foundation of the step-by-step recipe for Soda Bread. Jacques goes on to add yeast to flour for a country bread called Gros Pain. He then ...

A reminder of U.S. vulnerability in the polar seas? The retired Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier prepares for its final voyage. Glaciers are slipping away everywhere. It was tough to see this one go.

Resembling a wheel, this French pastry is thought to have been created by a Parisian pastry chef to celebrate the famous bicycle race from Paris to Brest, in Brittany. The traditional version consists ...

Easy and delicious, this duck is cooked in much the same way as Southern fried chicken — fried in its own fat in a covered pot so steam develops, making the meat very moist and tender and the skin ...

Guest chef Roland Passot of La Folie Restaurant in San Francisco joins Jacques to taste Endive with Olives; Jacques demonstrates the method for making the dish in the step-by-step recipe. He moves on ...

“There have been a lot of moments where I’m just almost crying with joy and pride when I see my daughters playing and really having an effect on an audience.”— Miguel Govea Michael Govea is a Latin ...

From the Lyon region of France, this onion soup is much thicker than the usual kind. It’s often served as a late-night dish. When I was a young man, I often made it with my friends at two or three A.M ...

Jacques Pépin is world-renowned as a chef and the host of his acclaimed and popular cooking programs on public television, and as a respected instructor, a prolific author and gifted artist. Pépin has ...

With more than 200 pieces, Richard and Pamela Kramlich have one of the world’s largest private collections of video and new media arts. In the “Collectors and Their Collections” episode, Spark gets a ...

“As [an] artist, the biggest challenge to me is not to repeat myself.”— Hung Liu Oakland painter Hung Liu combines Western and Chinese traditions to create larger-than-life images of everyday people ...

There are times when Jacques craves a good steak, so he shows his colleague, Chef David Shalleck, how to perfectly cook and mark, Grilled Steak with Lemon-Thyme Butter. For large get-togethers or ...

Spark gets into the heads of artists who are deeply influenced by memories. First, visit with painter Christopher Brown, who mines images of trains, birds, and buildings to create immediately familiar ...