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Thanks to a family dinner favorite, I've cooked a lot of lentils over the years—especially the small French ones.

For many years now, I've relied on the pressure cooker for chicken soup, stock, and beans—but not much else.

I love salads. I enjoy creating them and eating them. In the test kitchen, salads have given me something of a reputation.

I'm lost without a flat-edged scraper, whether it is plastic and slightly flexible (pastry scraper) or metal with a handle at one end (bench knife). Aside from the intended jobs of scraping dough off a work surface and of cutting it into sections,...

The first thing you learn in cooking school, even before they tell you how to sharpen a knife, is that you stabilize a cutting board by placing it on top of a wet cloth or paper towel.

If you know a dedicated griller who has a fireplace, this is a surefire way to make his winter a lot more cheerful.