Your Cooking Companion

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July 28, 2018

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A bottle of “really good” extra-virgin olive oil is a badge of honor in the kitchen. Once you reach the
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Hidden ingredients numbers 1 and 2: Tools and Temperature. What’s your guess for hidden ingredient number 3? It's TIME. Here’s
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If you’ve made my recommended leap into trying stainless steel tri-ply cookware and want it to be non-stick, it’s fast
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Many of us highbrow snobby cooks will only use real vanilla extract. We wouldn’t sully our cooking or our reputations
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I’m not the only cook in my house. It’s not unusual for me to be asked what’s “wrong” with a
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For the first half of the 20th century, grocery shopping required stops at several specialty shops: Meat from the butcher,
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A ripe, nicely-cooked artichoke is one of my favorite treats. My kids, now grown, loved them even as children. My
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Here I’m talking about staples—things for your pantry, whatever that looks like. So you won’t find things with a short
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I used to find myself standing in my pantry debating about whether to use Jasmine rice or Basmati rice. They
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Most of my cooking life, I have coveted expensive cookware. My ego was in charge, and I wanted my cookware
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