Cat Cora has long been one of the most recognizable and beloved celebrity chefs around, but that doesn't mean her path to the top was essay. “I became a chef when it was still very male ...

The story of the French chef and his cat may be “little,” as Steinbeck himself notes wryly in “The Amiable Fleas.” But, he opines, there are virtues in lingering upon life’s “soft ...