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An hour of salting before the pan goes on: the Neapolitan courgette dish most people ruin at the same step

A kilo of courgettes, mint, garlic and eighty millilitres of vinegar. Not one expensive ingredient - and the water you...

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The Original 1832 Recipe Is Still Kept as a Trade Secret, but the Step That Separates a Spongy Sachertorte From a Dense One Is Not

Whoever beat all the eggs together made a different cake. And the glaze must not pass 45 degrees, or the...

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The First Lasagne Had Neither Meat Nor Bechamel: Three Versions That Come Out of Bologna, and One Step That Decides Whether You Get a Slice or an Avalanche

One rule applies to all three and it is the one most often skipped. It is not a recommendation to...

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Thirty minutes of draining is the difference between a thick meze and water on the plate: Greek melitzanosalata and the step everyone skips

One single ingredient separates melitzanosalata from mutabal - tahini. Three aubergines, one clove of garlic, and an oven at 220...

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Do Not Rinse Raw Chicken Under the Tap: That Step Scatters the Bacteria Around Your Kitchen, It Does Not Remove Them

The chicken ends up in the pan anyway. The salad that was sitting half a metre away does not.

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The Fig Has a Season of a Few Weeks, and We Use It in One Way Out of Fifteen Possible Ones

This year the season started as early as August because of the heat. From breakfast to pizza - everywhere a...

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Cream Cheese Straight From the Fridge Tears the Base: the Fifteen Minutes That Decide a Whole Platter

The recipe is not hard, the temperature is wrong. Ten cream cheese canapés and the two rules without which none...

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Fifty-Three Days in the Same Building, and There Is Pizza and Champagne on the Table: the World Champions' Nutritionist Bans Nothing

The image of boiled chicken breast is wrong. The indulgence is planned, not broken.

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A potato is over 70 percent water, and that water is what breaks your pancakes apart: the step that settles everything before the pan goes on

Starch is the natural binder, but only if the water comes out first. Nine versions from Swiss rösti to a...

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At 78 He Still Cooks on Camera, and Breakfasts on an Egg From Hens Thirty Metres From His House

Not one powder, not one supplement, not one name with an English label. Tomato, ham, coffee and an egg -...

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France's most famous dessert is a mistake nobody bothered to correct: tarte tatin with plums and the step that decides everything

Six to eight minutes on medium-low heat decide whether the pastry bakes or boils. That is nowhere written in capital...

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Three ingredients and one step everyone does when they should not: the coconut pyramids the French learn as children

Desiccated coconut, sugar and egg whites. The whites are not whipped, and the mixture is left to rest - those...

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