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Welcome to our Articles archives, where you’ll find a cache of culinary insights and inspiration.

Discover what happened when we tried an air fryer for the first time, learn how to buy the perfect cooking knife, and read our interview with celebrity chef Aarti Sequeira.

Check out our tips on measuring ingredients accurately and selecting the ripest watermelons. Whether you’re a seasoned cook or a curious beginner, our articles are sure to enhance your culinary journey.

A person's fingers covered in berbere seasoning.
A pink bowl of short pasta with mushrooms, prosciutto, and Parmesan cheese on a placemat with a fork.

How to Cook Perfect Pasta

Our guide to freezing vegetables properly--four blocks of ice with berries, cherry tomatoes, green beans, and fava beans frozen inside

Our Guide to Freezing Food Properly

A cartoon of a woman contemplating different types of ham

Your Guide to Buying a Holiday Ham

A tree-shaped cookie being filled with royal icing.

How to Decorate with Royal Icing

Vacuum sealed pieces of salmon, chicken, and steak on a wooden table with basil sprigs and garlic cloves scattered around..

What is Sous Vide?

A line up of six olive oil from Herdade do Esporao

Leite’s Loves…Herdade do Esporão Olive Oils

A person pouring thick gravy from a gravy boat.

How Do I Thicken Gravy?

Extra flaky pie crust being folded in thirds from a large sheet of dough on a floured surface.

How to Make Pie Dough That’s Extra Flaky

A crimped pie crust in a pie plate.

How to Crimp Pie Crust Like a Pro

Hands rolling out pie dough.

How to Roll a Pie Crust

Four sweet potatoes in a wooden bowl on a piece of burlap.

How Can I Protect My Hands When Peeling Sweet Potatoes?

An interior shot of the Portugalia Marketplace in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Leite’s Loves…Portugalia Marketplace

A bowl of crispy seasoned chickpeas.

How to Cook Dried Chickpeas ~ Everything You Need to Know

A pile of discarded shrimp shells.

What Should I do with Shrimp Shells?

Small baskets of perfectly ripe peaches.

How to Tell if a Peach is Perfectly Ripe

A collection of herbs in containers

How to Grow Herbs in Containers

A digital thermometer sitting in bread dough that is proofing in a silver bowl.

Why You Need a Digital Thermometer When You Bake Bread

Smoke coming from a kettle grill that has been turned into a smoker.

How to Turn Your Kettle Grill Into a Smoker

A bunch of rhubarb stalks tied together with twine on a black platter for use in rhubarb with berries and candied ginger

How to Buy, Store, and Freeze Rhubarb

A crispy fried boneless chicken thigh drizzled with honey on a plate with a fork on the side.

Everything You Need to Know About Frying Chicken

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