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Nutmeg

Sweet potato pie. Eggnog. Coca Cola. Yes, Coca Cola. What do they have in common? They all feature the flavor of nutmeg. The seed of a tree originally found in the aptly-named Spice Islands, nutmeg […]

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Are You My (Mother) Sauce? | 5 Mother Sauces

The five mother sauces are the base sauces from which most other cooked sauces are made. By incorporating additional ingredients into a mother sauce, you can create numerous small or compound sauces. Let’s start at […]

How to saute
Tips

Crowd Control | Don’t Overcrowd Your Pan

There’s a scene in the movie Julie & Julia where Julie realizes she’s been cooking mushrooms the wrong way her entire life. This is not uncommon. Like most people, she’d been piling her pan high […]

Tools

Shallots

I’d never heard of shallots until I went to cooking school. I’d passed them in the grocery store, but never gave them a second thought. A few weeks in, shallots had become the center of […]

How to sauté mushrooms
Techniques

How to Sauté Perfectly Every Time

Learning  how to sauté will change your life in the kitchen. Sautéing is cooking food quickly at a high temperature in a small amount of oil — just enough to cover the bottom of the […]

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Tips for Setting Up a Buffet

The delicious details are what separate a good party from a great one and an organized and pretty buffet table is one detail your guests won’t forget. If you’re hosting a buffet, setting the table […]