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One Quick Step to Make Every Salad Better

Learn the one-minute method that will instantly up your salad game.

Everything You Need to Start Grilling This Memorial Day Weekend

Tips, recipes, and ideas to kick off summer grilling season right.

How a Jar Can Make Any Fresh Cheese Taste Better

Salad in jars? Just plain silly. Cheese in jars? Just plain brilliant.

The Gluten-Free Soy Sauce Alternative (and How to Cook With It)

This coconut-based condiment adds a rich, savory flavor to a range of dishes.

The Surprising Trick That Takes the Heat Out of Any Chile Pepper

Just pop open a can of soda. (No, really—you need a can of soda for this trick.)

12 Uses for Coffee Filters

Besides providing a vessel for your morning fix, here are way more ways a coffee filter can save your life.

The Easy Extra Step That Makes Every Grain Taste Better

With a little heat and a few minutes, you can make every grain in your kitchen go from flavor zero to flavor hero.

Pickled Red Onions Will Un-Boring Your Cooking

You're just a few ingredients away from a superstar condiment that will make just about anything you cook that much better. Plus, look at that lovely pink color.

How to Buy and Store Garlic Like a Pro

Garlic scapes, green garlic, black garlic. This culinary workhorse has so many different iterations, each with its own lovely and distinct flavor.

The Best Way to Eat Spring Peas Is in Butter

Peas + butter = your new favorite spread

In Praise of a Well-Seasoned Sheet Pan

Don't make yourself crazy trying to get this kitchen workhorse shiny again. Those stains and blotches will help you cook better.

Everybody Wedge Now

Forget about a sit-down dinner—host a wedge salad party instead.

Prepping Artichokes Doesn't Have to Be Torture

The easiest way to cook these thorny thistles also happens to be the most delicious one.

I Cooked Soft-Shelled Crabs For the First Time

And found, well, they’re a piece of cake. Crab cake.

How to Make Creamy, Dreamy Risotto Without a Recipe

Risotto may seem fancy, but it's actually super simple to make. Memorize this easy technique and you'll never have to look at a recipe for risotto again.

A New Way to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies

Eat your heart out, chocolate lava cake. We just got cookies into the game.

Two Baking Bosses on Improvising When Baking

Baking Legends Rose Levy Beranbaum and Alice Medrich share the secrets to bending the baking rules.

Our Favorite Kitchen Cleaning Supplies

Kitchen cleaning tools come in every shape and size. These are the best.

The Real Way to Tell If an Avocado Is Ripe

And other tips on buying and storing avocados.

Yes, You Can (Make This Easy Springtime Pasta at Home)

Come spring, you can ditch the pasta machine and ignore the long-simmered sauces. Here's how.
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