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Janet Rausa Fuller

What You Need to Know About Salt

The only ingredient you use in everything you cook.

The Insider's Guide to Orange Juice

From concentrate? Low pulp? Reduced sugar? Extra calcium? What does it all mean?

How to Keep Lettuce Looking Lively

Keep the crunch as long as possible.

How to Buy, Store, and, Yes, Eat Your Broccoli

The most basic of brassicas is also easy to buy, hardy to store, and best prepared simply. So why aren't you eating more broccoli?

How to Buy Whole Chickens Like a Pro

Roast it, quarter it and fry it, poach it, braise it: whatever way you like it, whole chickens are the backbone of the kitchen. So when you're buying one, make sure you know what you're getting.

How to Score the Freshest, Tastiest Shrimp

"There's shrimp kabobs, shrimp Creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp…"

Milk, For All It's Worth

Got milk? I mean, do you really get it?

How to Buy and Store Spring Onions

The rock stars-in-training of the allium family.

What You Need to Know About Ground Beef

Master the art of ground beef and make better burgers.

How to Buy the Freshest Eggs Every Time

One of the most simple and essential foods is also, somehow, one of the most complicated to buy. Here's how to navigate the egg section of the grocery store, and how to treat your eggs when you get them home.