Cooking

On "Florida Matters Live & Local," former Tampa chef Eric Hipol talked about why he started sharing recipes of the city's iconic food on Reddit — calling it the Recipe Preservation Project.

Improvising in the kitchen takes a lot of practice. But when you get to that point in the recipe where you realize you're out of white wine/fresh garlic/brown sugar/whatever you absolutely MUST have for this recipe, being able to swap in another ingredient can really come in handy. Chef and author Kenji López-Alt and cook and food writer Deb Perelman walk us through the basics of food substitutions.