Cooking with the whole lemon can be a revelation—skin, pith, juice, and all.

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A decade ruled by anti-fat hysteria got the cookie it deserved.

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Tea is consumed all over the world, but only in the U.S. has it been so equated with femininity that some companies try to profit from the idea that drinking it makes you less of a man.

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Hamburgers, with secretive beef blends, over-the-top toppings, and outrageous prices, used to be the celebrated calling card for any respectable chef. Then the histrionics of the patty became a punch line. 

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After rewriting the rules of vegetarian and Middle Eastern cooking, the chef is now paring down with a new book: Ottolenghi Simple. Yotam Ottolenghi …

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Tracing botulism’s long and miserable history. I grew up with both a love of canned foods and a free-floating anxiety about medical …

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Though it’s long been considered as hippie as a macramé tapestry—and often maligned—there’s now a growing sense that nutritional yeast is, basically, …

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Nutritional yeast is a versatile seasoning that adds a burst of umami to anything from popcorn to oatmeal to this really delicious …

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For Palestinian cooks in America, food is a way of tracing identity through a messy past. “It’s not a political manifesto,” Reem …

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Gone are complicated sauces and bloated menu descriptions. Here are meal kits and unflinchingly cool, back-to-basics recipes. But does this movement toward …

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The Atomic Age Jewish cookbook Love and Knishes was written in a voice so skeptical, so long-suffering, so unapologetically, unfashionably Jewish that …

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The San Francisco chef wants you to pickle more vegetables, coddle many eggs, and embrace the beauty of barley flour. On the …

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