Onions are the third-largest fresh vegetable industry in the United States. Whether chopped, sautéed, or deep-fried, onions find their way into everything from omelets to soup. But slicing and dicing ...

Onions might be the most metaphoric of all ingredients. They can be sweet or spicy, and they have layers. Most poetic of all, they bring tears to our eyes. With husks, cut flesh, all the debris of ...

Nothing will ruin your eye makeup quite like chopping onions. Just a few weeks ago I started slicing several onions in my small Brooklyn kitchen, preparing to caramelize them for a simple pasta dish.