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3 Ways the Home Cook Can Help Solve the Water Crisis
From menu planning to washing the dishes, home cooks can use less water every step of the way.
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A Baking Cookbook Showdown
In Cookbook Versus, we look at two seemingly similar new cookbooks, letting you know what type of cook will dig each of them. Today, it's Real Sweet by Shauna Sever versus Baking With Less Sugar by Joanne Chang.
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How to Cook Vegetables That Taste Better Than a Burger
Don't peel your beets, always squeeze some lemon, and other genius advice from a chef who loves vegetables as much as meat.
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How New York's Best Tortillas Get Made
A visit to the non-profit bakery Hot Bread Kitchen reveals how they make 12,000 tortillas a week—and how you can make them at home.
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How to Make Fresh Corn Tortillas at Home
Got fresh, warm, well-made tortillas where you live? Buy them. But if you don't (and, hey, even if you do), it's time to start pressing tortillas at home. Because nothing is more important to great Mexican food than a great tortilla. And tortillas are a a lot easier than you think.
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Grizzly Bear Bassist Chris Taylor on Why He Wrote a Cookbook
A rock star-turned-cookbook-author talks about dinner party soundtracks, brown butter, and why the 80s rocked for marinara.
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How a Text Message Can Make You a Better Cook
If you can read a text message, you can cook just about anything with our new smart kitchen timer for Apple Watch and iPhone.
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How to Find the Best Pinot Noir in the Country
There's a reason why they call Willamette Valley the Burgundy of America.
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Cookbook Review: Mindy Segal's Cookie Love
For our first cookbook review, we dig into the Chicago pastry chef's first effort, which she calls "the ultimate cookie plate."
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Modern Southern Food From a 65-Year-Old Cookbook
Cooking New Southern? You need this vintage cookbook.
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How to Deglaze a Pan Without Wine
An ingenious solution from the one and only Nigella Lawson.
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The Snack That's Taking Over for Avocado Toast
It's time to top your bread with something bigger.
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How to Get the Most Out of a Recipe
How to demystify complicated, advanced, confusing, or otherwise daunting recipes.
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The Particular Pleasures of British Cookbooks
There's something about British cookbooks that pulls a reader in—first into the pages, then into the kitchen. A thoroughly American author explores how it's done.
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How Ina Garten Became the Barefoot Contessa
How Ina Garten became the butter-loving, Jeffrey-feeding queen of food that tastes "better than you remember."
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How America's Favorite Chicken Recipe Was Invented
The secret story behind America's favorite chicken recipe.
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How One Food Writer Put Hummus in Every Supermarket
These days, you'll find hummus in every supermarket. You've got Claudia Roden to thank for that.
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How Madhur Jaffrey Made the World Fall in Love with Indian Food
Before Madhur Jaffrey wrote her groundbreaking An Invitation to Indian Cooking, she was an actress who didn't know how to make tea.