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Let’s Make Some Ravioli

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The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is: Big Hot Pot

A bowl of mushroom soup that tasted better than it photographed

Let’s Cook Mushroom Soup

circa 1965: A woman lifts a cup of coffee off a saucer in a kitchen. (Photo by Leo Vals/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Machines

Boston Tech Startup Develops Worst Imaginable Way To Get A Cup Of Coffee

A bowl of pierogi with cabbage and sour cream

Let’s Make Pierogi

A young John F. Kennedy sits at a typewriter

Plagiarism Is The Weirdest Of All The Frauds

A bowl of escarole with beans and sausage

Let’s Cook Some Escarole With Beans And Sausage

A stuffed orange pepper, looking very delicious in a bowl

Let’s Throw Together Some Stuffed Peppers

A hunk of cornbread on a plate on a rustic tabletop

Let’s Bake Some Cornbread

Let’s Cook Up A Nice Big Bowl Of Summer

A Big Pile Of Tomatoes Is A Salad If You Say It Is

A plate of fried green tomatoes, with a Chefector badge

Let’s Fry Some Green Tomatoes

Smoke The Pork, Pull The Pork, And Put The Pork In A Sandwich

Today’s Cocktail Is The White Rum Sour

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The walnuts an hour or so after being quartered.

How To Make Nocino, The Black Potion That Is Summer’s Ode To Winter

Let’s Make Some Slaw

A very tiny green baby tomato on the vine

It Is Not Yet Tomato Time, Blasphemers

Today’s Cocktail Is The Bloody Crusta

Some chicken, with a little potato salad peeking up from the bottom of the frame