Roasting food on skewers is likely the second-oldest form of cooking over fire. Right after early humans got sick of burning their fingers every time they reached for a hunk of charred mastodon ...

A vegetarian take on the Middle Eastern dish, this recipe straddles the seasons. By Melissa Clark These earliest days of spring are always the most frustrating, at least when it comes to dinner.

Is there anything better than fire-roasted, spit-shaved meat crammed into a sandwich or piled on a plate with rice, salad, and hummus? Popular theory suggests that the vertical spit arose in Turkey.