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The Test Kitchen: Tips for Using a Pressure Cooker

Food editor Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez demonstrates how to use this handy kitchen tool. Can she convince editor in chief Ruth Reichl that food cooked in a pressure cooker can be tasty?...
08.01.08
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The Test Kitchen: A Unique Way to Pit Cherries

Ruth Cousineau demonstrates how to pit cherries while keeping them whole. The special gadget she uses? We’re sure you already have one (and it’s not a cherry pitter)....
07.31.08
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Behind The Recipe: Tuna Tonnato With Eggplant Salad

One of our food editors takes a trip to Paris and comes home with an easy and elegant idea: Pack your summer picnic in a jar.
07.31.08
food + cooking

When Summer Can’t be Denied

It’s not summer until I’ve stopped buying salad and started picking greens, like purslane, by the road.
07.25.08
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The Test Kitchen: The Ten-Minute Main Challenge

Each issue of Gourmet features recipes for Ten-Minute Mains—main courses that can be prepared in ten minutes of active time. Can food editor/stylist Maggie Ruggiero really make Mustard-crusted Pork with Carrots and Lentils within that time limit?...
07.24.08
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The Test Kitchen: How to Juice Cherries

Shelley Wiseman shares a great tip for making fresh cherry juice without having to pit the cherries one by one.
07.22.08
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Behind The Recipe: Smoked-Turkey, Plum, and Fennel Salad

Our test kitchen director explains how a complicated idea morphed into this flavorful, quick, and affordable dish.
07.21.08
food + cooking

The Test Kitchen: How to Crack a Coconut

Food editor Ian Knauer demonstrates how to extract fresh coconut meat—all you need is a little heat and a hammer.

07.18.08
food + cooking

The Test Kitchen: How to Make Bread Crumbs

Executive food editor Kemp M. Minifie shares her favorite technique for making bread crumbs.
07.16.08
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Smoked-Turkey, Plum, and Fennel Salad

You might expect to find smoked duck breast in a main-course salad like this one, but we use smoked turkey, which makes it more affordable.
August 2008
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