Macaroni: I like to use elbow macaroni because it is a mac and cheese after all, but any small or medium pasta like shells, ...

Stirring the macaroni and cheese partway through smoking ensures that the smoke flavor permeates throughout the dish instead of just infusing the top and leaving everything underneath smoke-less.

Plus: Columnist Alix Wall also looks at "The Mac & Cheese Millionaire," the new book by Oakland chef Erin Wade.

But how can you jazz up the classic macaroni and cheese? This is a question that celebrity chef James Martin often tackles on his popular ITV cooking show, James Martin's Saturday Morning.

At least 20 variations on macaroni and cheese will be available at the 14th Mac-n-Cheese Bowl, a fundraiser for the Regional Food Bank and scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

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Five closed-off blocks of Remsen Street in Cohoes attracted an a crowd estimated at 3,000 for last year's 13th Mac-n-Cheese Bowl. After two years of dreary, late-March weather, the street festival ...

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