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Choosing a watermelon

Cooking with French sorrel

Keeping zested fruit fresh

Preserve summer berries now

When making tea ...

Keeping bananas fresher longer

Zucchini time!

The sweet side of sour cherries

Blind baking

Cooling food

Flatten chicken

Radishes pack bite when fresh, mellow when cooked

It's mushroom season

Leaveners -- a primer

Easy appetizers ... Steam baby veggies

Tame onions ... grilled mussels

Go wild with rhubarb ... a toast to cachaca

Cutting up pineapple ... ramp it up

Mache ... Browning mushrooms

Perfect grill marks ... two-toned beer

Cold nuts ... spring veggies

Poached foods ... soft-shelled crabs

Slicing cheese ... rolling out the dough

Rooty toot toot ... morel minority

Skin or no skin ... light on the vermouth

Go green with compost ... perfect patties

Roast canned tomatoes for best flavor ... buying burrata

Breading tips ... how to make creme fraiche

Asparagus shoots and fiddlehead ferns

Toast nuts for more flavor ... freezer tricks

How to use up stale bread ... other tips

How to buy good citrus fruits ... rasp graters

Defining sushi

Bubbly wine ... French mayo

Let foods rest ... The perfect sauce

It's the season for blood oranges ... all about radicchio

Make guacamole the last minute ... grind your nutmeg

How to care for a pizza stone ... chilis and chiles

Be gentle with broccoli florets ... pressed garlic

Cookie dough ... Beet treats

Reconstitute dried mushrooms ... poach delicate food