From wartime Japan to American casseroles, the story of one breadcrumb’s rise — and the science behind why it stays so crispy.

Pecorino cheese, black pepper, and garlic give mashed potatoes a cacio e pepe spin. Shaped into croquettes, chilled, then breaded in a panko crust, they fry up shatteringly crisp on the outside and ...

"Panko" is a term that, thanks to a friend from Japan, I learned simply means bread crumbs in Japanese. In the United States, the term refers to a particular type of bread crumb. Panko bread crumbs ...