Lots of recipes call for the zest of a lemon. In fact, lemon zest may even be a more common ingredient than lemon juice, although one of our favorite lemon-focused sweets, lemon curd, calls for both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freezing lemons helps preserve their fresh flavor and usefulness for months, making it easy to enjoy citrus year-round. Whole ...

During culinary school and my subsequent time cooking in restaurants, I learned that finishing a savory dish with a flurry of bright yellow lemon zest or rubbing zest into the sugar before mixing a ...

While that advice urges us to turn life’s challenges into something sweet, lemons have far more to offer than just a refreshing drink. Lemons are culinary powerhouses that bring brightness and bold ...

In Amalfi, Italy, cooks making pesto forgo the classic fresh basil in favor of strips of zest from the local lemons, “sfusato amalfitano.” Combined with almonds, Parmesan and oil, it makes a bright, a ...

Ever flipped through a recipe that calls for lemon zest (or any citrus fruit zest, for that matter), only to realize you're missing that one specific tool? Whoever convinced us we needed a citrus ...

Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Cybelle Tondu. In this recipe, which Pierre Franey brought to The Times in 1992 in one of his 60-Minute Gourmet columns, two teaspoons of lemon zest ...

In Amalfi, Italy, cooks who make pesto forgo the classic fresh basil in favor of strips of zest from local lemons. Combined with almonds, Parmesan and oil, the zest makes a bright, aromatic pesto ...

Everyone loves a bowl of sunny lemons on the counter—not just for their beautiful color and smell, but also for their seemingly endless uses. But when life hands you more lemons than you can handle, ...