The historians, anthropologists, writers, and chefs at this year’s Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery can get The Last Word (if not the last word).

You and your guests will be utterly charmed when you see how easily mashed potatoes can be transformed into a gaggle of ghosts.

Bones are what you want on Halloween night, and your best bet for plenty of them—along with generous amounts of succulent meat—is beef short ribs.

Too often crackers get short shrift. Not here. By incorporating cheese into the dough, along with poppy seeds, these crackers become crisp snacks.

What could be more American than candy corn? Try maple pecan popcorn treats, for starters. They’re made with three ingredients—maple syrup, pecans, and popcorn—that originated in...

This obvious choice for a Halloween dessert will far exceed your expectations of deep chocolaty naughtiness hidden under a fluff of espresso-tinged frosting.

Cooking by color might not be the surest way to devise holiday-appropriate recipes, but who can resist the lure of black linguine on Halloween?

Punch is one of the easiest ways to set the Halloween mood—all you need is a cauldron, perhaps, and ice block “hands. ”

Grilling the hot dogs first lends them a deeper, smokier flavor, and the buttermilk-cornmeal coating fries up to a thick, fluffy shell.

Corn chowder doesn’t have to be ivory pale with milk or cream to taste creamy.