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10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Making Marinades Work
Face it: most raw meat isn’t particularly appetizing (and if you don’t buy that, try working at a food website and searching, say, for attractive images of raw chicken). But meat read more -
9 Things You Didn’t Know About…Happily Cooking with Nonstick Pans
Teflon was once top secret. Yeah, it’s true — before DuPont trademarked the chemical compound “polytetrafluoro-ethylene” (or PTFE) as “Teflon,” the now famous nonstick stuff was used read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Cooking Pasta Perfectly
No doubt, pasta has taken a drubbing in recent years, caught up in the center of the anti-carb craze and foresworn by legions of carb-counting dieters. But in reality, most of us have a read more -
9 Things You Didn’t Know About…Food, Love & Sex
Of course there’s a connection between food, love and sex, right? Just turn on your TV. Yes, that camera slowly panning across the glistening, bubbly surface of take-out pizza and the read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Using Your Dishwasher
If, like me, you ever spent a significant part of your adult life living without a dishwasher, then you’ll know what I’m talking about: the indescribable feeling of supreme comfort read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Food Poisoning
It’s always the shrimp, right? If you’ve ever woken up with that queasy “uh-oh” feeling, you immediately start to try to figure out what it was you ate last night that read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Cooking When the Power’s Out
I’m writing this on my computer, which means I have electricity, which means that any thought of having to feed my family during some sort of freak power outage is relegated to the remote read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Making the Perfect Cup of Tea
I think it’s funny that they market certain teas as “calming” or “relaxing,” because when you stop to think about it (over the perfect cup of tea, of course), what read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Avoiding a Recipe Disaster
People tell me all the time I’m a great cook, but here’s a little secret: I’m not. At least I don’t think I am when compared to my idea of what makes a really great cook. read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Running Your Garbage Disposal
Quick, what’s the most terrifying thing in your kitchen (other than that box of leftover Chinese takeout buried at the back of the fridge from last month)? For me, it’s got to be the read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Organizing Your Kitchen
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about packing up your kitchen to move, so it only seemed logical to follow up with the next step: organizing your new kitchen. But even a familiar kitchen can read more -
10 Things You Didn’t Know About…Packing Your Kitchen to Move
I’ve moved three times in five years, two of those cross-country. It’s not like I’m one of those people addicted to change; I actually like staying put. That’s just the read more