MSG is a safe and helpful flavor enhancer, just like salt and pepper. Here are the ways I like to use MSG in my cooking and baking.

Though a champion of it now, he didn’t start cooking with MSG until he began working in restaurants. “When I started working at Win Son, we ordered 100-pound barrels at a time,” he tells me.

MSG is an often misunderstood spice that should be utilized more frequently in cooking. Here's why MSG deserves a spot in your seasoning cabinet.

Monosodium glutamate, a.k.a. MSG, can be a very useful tool for boosting flavor. Here's some background on the ingredient and how to use it at home.

To many people, cooking with MSG and other strange chemicals sounds frightening. But according to Witherly, the author of "Why Humans Like Junk Food," the stuff is perfectly safe.

Now a growing number of chefs and influencers are arguing that this seasoning, which looks a bit like sugar and occurs naturally in tomatoes, parmesan cheese and mushrooms, belongs on every cook’s ...

If you’ve heard of the term “MSG,” you might have also heard of its common – but inaccurate – connotations. For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been ...

Anti-MSG sentiment, widely considered to have xenophobic origins, dates back to the late 1960s, when reports of diners reacting badly after consuming food containing the much-misunderstood ...

Food scientist Steve Witherly uses monosodium glutamate all the time in his home cooking — typically in what he refers to as a "supersalt" mixture featuring nine parts salt, one part MSG, and a ...

For my cookbook of the week I reviewed Calvin Eng's 'Salt, Sugar, MSG.' Here's what you can expect from the cookbook and my thoughts on the recipes I made this week.