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What We Mean When Say Things Like 'Drizzle,' 'Dollop,' and 'Schmear'

What do we mean when we say "dollop," "sprinkle," and "schmear?" We're taking the guesswork out of it for you with this handy Instagram video.

How to Get Rid of Kitchen Smells with Natural Remedies

How Bon Appétit staffers get rid of bad kitchen smells with natural ingredients like lemons, baking soda, incense, and vinegar

Our Condé Nast Colleagues' Kids Judged Our Muffins Today—and They're Tough Cookies

It's Bring Your Kid to Work Day here at Condé Nast, so naturally we invited the children into our test kitchen for a tasting. Turns out, those pint-sized judges are pretty harsh (yet sophisticated!)

3 Awesome Matzo Brei Recipes, from 3 Awesome Test Kitchen Chefs

Three of our test kitchen chefs went head to head (to head) to create three wildly different (and awesome) versions of Passover matzo brei

It's Complicated: A Test Kitchen Cook's Food Relationship Status

Eating great food all day long for work is a dream come true. It's also a sure way to wind up with an incredibly complicated relationship with food

How to Cook Lobster Mexican-Style, According to Chef Shannon Bard

Chef Shannon Bard from Zapoteca in Portland, ME, brings together Mexico and Maine in lobster tacos.

How to Make Sweet Potato Caramel

An easy, one-ingredient sweet-potato caramel to put on chicken, meat, ice cream, brownies, and more

How to Preserve Summer Cherries in Syrup

Especially when you realize you can keep them around an extra month by preserving them in syrup

How to Preserve Spring Onions by Packing Them in Oil

Pack spring onions in olive oil and you've got a crostini topper, a pasta sauce, and some serious drizzling material

How to Make Strawberry Vinegar

It's hard not to just eat strawberries by the basketful, but with a little self-control, you can infuse them into a vinegar you'll want to put on everything

How to Preserve Ramps Past Their Season, in Ramp Butter

Ramps' season may be short, but you can enjoy them all summer long--if you know how to preserve them. (Psst! We've got that recipe!)

The Future of the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen

Why not bring a little 1972 to our big move in 2014?

The Best Pumpkin Beers Taste Test

We tested a pumpkin patch's worth of these all-American brews to find our favorites

Chef Ricardo Zarate Sears Fish with Hot Oil

You aren't still cooking INSIDE it are you?

Supermarket Standoff

Sometimes taste tests are a jarring experience

How to Fold Parchment Paper to Cook En Papillote

It's this season's "it" bag, we're telling you

6 Grains to Try, Like Now

There's never been a greater variety of grains and grain-like power seeds available at the supermarket. Here are some of our favorites

Move Over, Quinoa. It's Time for Kaniwa

The seed is our new favorite salad topper

Char Out, Man

You'll get that intense flavor if you do

What's Cold, Yellow, and Best Taken with a Plate of Salt?

Hint: You'll see one (or a bunch) on Cinco de Mayo

Spring Cleaning Part Two

Scrape up the last bits from your tub of miso and toss it into a skillet with some baby bok choy

The Leg Bone's Connected to the Shank Bone

You might need an anatomy lesson to properly carve a whole bone-in ham. Here goes

Troubleshooting Our Black Sesame-Pear Tea Cake

Some of you had problems with this recipe, so here are some tips