Cooking Aguachile, the Quick Fish Cure-All The path to Mexico’s almost-ceviche is as simple as water, chile, and fresh fruit. Story: Michael Harlan Turkell
Cooking Don’t Buy the $8 Watermelon Water For the best watermelon juice, all you need is five minutes and a blender. Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Mango Chow: It’s Hot This Trinidadian snack with lime juice, garlic, culantro, and chile is here for you this summer. Story: Brigid Washington
Cooking Grate Expectations Not only for lemons, the Microplane zester is as versatile a tool as any for the home cook. Story: Yasmin Fahr
Cooking 300% More Frittata Baking eggs by the dozen is smart. Using a sheet pan is smarter. Story: Lukas Volger
Cooking The Salty, Savory Side of Soy Milk This Taiwanese approach to breakfast will sell you on homemade soy milk. Story: Cathy Erway
Cooking Chickpea Flour Is the Hero of Shiro The Ethiopian and Eritrean staple is often freshly ground from chickpeas and spices. But for home cooks, there’s a shortcut. Story: Tammie Teclemariam
Cooking Not Your Average Ice Cream Sandwich It’s a classic Taiwanese combination of butter-fried peanuts, condensed milk, and cilantro (yes, you heard that right). Story: Tatiana Bautista
Cooking In the Summer, Koreans Fight Fire With Fire For Korean home cooks, boiling hot chicken soup—samgyetang—is a rejuvenating summer tradition. Story: Nara Shin
Cooking The Bugatti of Rice Pudding Mastering riz à l’impératrice is a rite of passage for modern pastry chefs. That doesn’t mean you can’t make it at home. Story: Daniela Galarza
Cooking Turn the Sundae on Its Head, Literally The ice cream bombe is your new party trick. Story: Allison Robicelli
Cooking Bow Tie Pasta: It’s a Jewish Thing? Kasha varnishkes is a satisfying side dish that deserves a turn front and center. Story: Layla Schlack
Cooking No Scallions Left Behind Cook down your scallions like caramelized onions. Your noodles will thank you. Story: Tatiana Bautista
Cooking Rethinking the Boring Baguette. Where? Bali. Starter Lab's retooling of the iconic French bread wasn't exactly planned. Story: Wyatt Williams
Cooking I’m Not Smiling. My Knife Is Smiling. It may seem like a holdover from the Italian nonnas of yore, but here’s why the mezzaluna should make the cut in the modern home cook’s kitchen. Story: Danielle Bernabe
Cooking People Love to Hate the Garlic Press Chefs claim that it makes garlic taste bad, and home cooks worry that it’s a cheap shortcut. But are either of them right? Story: Emily Timberlake
Cooking The Best Thing About Going Vegan? This Date Snack. For three months I lived in a stack of cookbooks. And then I took matters into my own hands. Story: Jordan Michelman
Cooking In Defense of the Chewy Doughnut Forget cake doughnuts and yeast doughnuts. Mochi doughnuts add some bounce to your bite. Story: Tatiana Bautista
Cooking Pasta: It’s Better Cold Pasta salad, universally loved and debatably not Italian-American in origin, is worth more than the convenience it offers at picnics and barbecues. Story: Chris Crowley
Cooking A New Wave for African Ingredients With a wide selection of grains, sauces, marinades, and juices, an energized generation of black entrepreneurs are bringing sub-Saharan products to the mainstream. Story: Max Falkowitz
Cooking The Avocado Was Made to Smoothie Running out of ways to use up your big bag of ripe avocados? Consider blending them. Story: Tatiana Bautista