Ingredients
Pantry All-Star
Spicy Giardiniera Is a Busy Cook’s Best-Kept Secret
Turn up the flavor of your pasta sauce and your tuna salad with this jarred condiment from the Windy City
Shopping
The Cult Hot Sauces You Can Score on Amazon
Turn up the Scoville scale with these bottles of lip-tingling hot sauces that we just can’t get enough of.
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Recipe Roundup
27 Fennel Recipes for Crunchy Salads and Savory-Sweet Sides
Whether shaved into crunchy ribbons or caramelized and golden-sweet, fennel enhances every dish it touches.
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Recipe Roundup
37 Watermelon Recipes for Your Juiciest Summer Yet
A ripe red slice and the seed-spitting contest that follows are great. These recipes are better.
Pantry All-Star
How Shelf-Stable Gnocchi Became a Dinner Hero
This once-disparaged ingredient has become pantry gold for chefs and cookbook authors.
Origin Story
The Root Vegetable That Fueled a $25 Million Ponzi Scheme
Rich in carbohydrates and easy to cultivate, these little rhizomes once promised to solve all of our energy problems.
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Recipe Roundup
23 Rum Drinks to Get You in a Summer Mood
These recipes will help your favorite bottle shine.
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Recipe Roundup
29 Tequila Drinks to Give Your Signature Margarita Some Competition
Margaritas are great, but there’s so much to do with tequila beyond shaking it up with lime juice and orange liqueur.
Kitchen Intelligence
The Real Difference Between European and American Butter
The difference between European and American butters all comes down to the percentages of butterfat, water, and milk solids.
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Strawberry
43 Strawberry Recipes for Celebrating the Season
Take those berries and pickle them, salad them, shortcake them, and more.
Origin Story
Bananas Don’t Taste Like They Used To. Here’s Why
The breads, puddings, and tarts of your grandparents’ generation were made with a completely different banana.
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Recipe Roundup
37 Garlic Recipes for Those Who Think One Clove Is Never Enough
If you’re a garlic maximalist, you’ve come to the right place.
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Rhubarb
41 Rhubarb Recipes to Add to Your Spring Agenda
These magenta stalks are only around for a short time in spring. Cook ’em while you can.
Kitchen Intelligence
What Is Rhubarb, and How Do I Cook With It?
Everything you need to know about spring’s pretty pink stalks.
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Ingredient
15 Types of Mushrooms and How to Cook With Them
Explore the vast world of mushrooms, including dependable criminis, meaty morels, and more.
Tips and Tricks
Out of Vanilla Extract? Try One of These Substitutes
Give your bakes a boost with these flavorful substitutes for vanilla extract.
What's In Your Grocery Cart?
Harry Shum Jr.’s Grocery Routine Is Big on Yellowtail Collars and Mushrooms
The actor loves to go to 99 Ranch—and isn't afraid to cook salmon in a film set trailer.
Origin Story
Weird Vintage Recipes Found a Second Life Online—And They’re Thriving
Savory Jell-O salads are natural-born social media stars, and history can tell us why.
Kitchen Intelligence
How to Make Self-Rising Flour
Follow these steps for making self-rising flour at home—just make sure that it’s not self-raising flour that you want first, since, surprise: they’re not quite the same thing.