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Buttery Beer Bread is Your Lockdown Essential

Buttery beer bread is the lockdown essential you didn't know you needed. Learn how to make delicious beer bread.

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Yeast Free Bread Recipes for Easy Homemade Bread

Out of yeast? Don't that stop your need to knead! Here are 5 easy recipes for making delicious home made bread, no yeast required.

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Muffins Without Baking Powder

Are you on the lookout for more recipes without baking powder?

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Yeast Free Lemon Sponge Cake

Lemon ring cake is a traditional Italian dessert very versatile: try this lighter version of the cake, a yeast free recipe for sponge cake soft and delicious

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The Science of Food

How To Make Yeast And Use It At Home: The Science Of Yeast

Yeast is the key ingredient for a tasty piece of bread: find out how chemistry and physics could help you while making it yourself at home.

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Through The Eyes of The Chef

Creamy Parmesan Risotto with Chef Riccardo Camanini

Learn how to make creamy parmesan risotto with this parmesan risotto recipe from Michelin-starred chef Riccardo Camanini.

Fermentation, next

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Sang-Hoon Degeimbre on The Art of Fermentation

What's the purpose of fermentation? What are its benefits to health and sustainability? And how do you make white kimchi? The chef from L'Air du Temps explains

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Points of View

Joshua Evans' Fermentation Experiments

A chat with the Former Nordic Food Lab Lead Researcher Joshua Evans on the future of fermentation and the possibility of amplifying the flavours of foods.

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Culinary Journeys

Japan meets France: Chef Shinobu's cooking

Shinobu Namae combines lacto-fermentation with heritage Japanese foodstuff to create a new synergy for Franco-Japanese gastronomy.

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A List of 10 Everyday Fermented Foods

Take a journey through the most common fermented foods and discover how easy the health giving food is to put on your plate.

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The Science of Food

The Science of Milk Fermentation

What's the science of milk fermentation and how can we apply it at home? Here's a focus on the fermentation process and a list of fermented milk products.

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The Taste of Fermentation According to Yannick Alléno

After years spent perfecting sauces, French chef Yannick Alléno goes further by using fermentation to enhance his creations, a "boost" to the taste.

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World Cuisine

Behind Fermentation, a Trend Without Borders

A closer look at fermentation and fermented foods as they were discussed during the Slow Food - Indigenous Terra Madre event in India.

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Food Sustainability

Arielle Johnson on Harnessing the Power of Fermentation

An interesting video presentation from MAD's head of research Arielle Johnson on how restaurants could harness waste for fermentation.

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Famous Chefs

WATCH: David Chang Explains His New Fermented Products

Have you heard of bonji and honzo? They are part of a line of fermented foods launched by Momofuku chef David Chang. Watch these videos to learn more.

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The Nordic Food Lab's Podcast on Fermentation

Curious about pickles and fermented foods? Get the lowdown on lactic acid fermentation in this podcast by the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen.

Watch Michelin Chefs Cooking

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Watch These Michelin-Star Chefs Make Pancakes

Everybody has their own idea how pancakes should be, but as Pancake Day arrives, you'll want to make yours as good as can be. For inspiration, watch these Michelin star chefs use their exceptional skills to turn out some serious pancakes.

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6 Gourmet Salad Recipes by Michelin-Star Chefs

From Jean-Georges Vongerichten's simple shrimp salad, and Gordon Ramsay's spicy steak salad, to Thomas Keller's classic caesar and Enrico Crippa's complex 41-ingredient dish, find out how to make six different salads with top Michelin-star chefs.

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Do Something Different with your Christmas Leftovers

Turn your Christmas turkey leftovers into some great dishes with these recipes and chefs' tips.

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Watch Michelin Chefs Cook Oysters

Watch as this shellfish is given the royal treatment in the hands of some of the world's best chefs, from Hélène Darroze's oyster tartar, to Stephen Harris's oyster, sole & cream cheese ice cream.

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Michelin Chefs Cook: Langoustine

Watch langoustine given the royal treatment in our roundup of the best video recipes from Michelin starred chefs.

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Food preservation Tips

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How To Freeze Raspberries

Wondering how to freeze fresh raspberries? Use this easy trick and you'll be able to enjoy beautiful, great-tasting raspberries year round.

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How To Make Apricot Jam

Turn summer apricots into a luscious jam you can enjoy all year long. You'll love the simplicity and wonderful flavor of this easy apricot jam recipe.

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How To Preserve Cherries in Syrup

Learn how to preserve cherries in syrup so you can use them to decorate decadent desserts like Black Forest cake, coconut flan, Italian zeppole, and more.

How To Make Dried Fruit (And Veggies) At Home

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How To Make Dried Fruit (And Veggies) At Home

Start enjoying homemade dried fruit by putting these tips to good use. You can dry fruit or vegetables easily with just an oven, a microwave or food dehydrator.

How to Preserve Zucchini So You Can Eat It Year Round

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How to Preserve Zucchini So You Can Eat It Year Round

Is your garden overflowing with zucchini? Learn the many ways you can preserve zucchini so you can enjoy a taste of summer even on the coldest day of the year.

How To Pit Cherries With or Without A Pitter

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How To Pit Cherries With or Without A Pitter

Wondering how to pit cherries like a pro? Check out some of the easiest ways to pit cherries with or without any fancy equipment. You'll love the results!

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How to Preserve Pears In Syrup

Curious about how to preserve pears? Learn how to make canned pears preserved in a deliciously sweet syrup laced with ginger and fragrant spices. Give it a try.

Learn How To Preserve Lemons With Salt (And Nothing Else)

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Learn How To Preserve Lemons With Salt (And Nothing Else)

When life hands you lemons, preserve them! Here is an easy step-by-step guide to learn how to preserve lemons: follow these 4 steps and enjoy the taste.

Love Pickled Beets? Learn How To Make Them

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Gourmet Cooking

Love Pickled Beets? Learn How To Make Them

Tender, sweet and tangy, pickled beets are a great addition to an appetizer platter or sandwiches. Learn how to make pickled beets you can enjoy all year long.

6 Easy Homemade Jam Recipes Anyone Can Make

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6 Easy Homemade Jam Recipes Anyone Can Make

Looking for deliciously easy homemade jam recipes? Here are six luscious spreads anyone can master.

How To Preserve Food | Methods And Techniques

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How To Preserve Food | Methods And Techniques

Food preservation is very important. Learn how to preserve foods like fruit, meat, fish and vegetables: all the techniques to preserve food.

Raw Apple Cider Vinegar: Learn How to Make This Elixir at Home

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Raw Apple Cider Vinegar: Learn How to Make This Elixir at Home

Are you a fan of raw apple cider vinegar? Then stop buying the stuff from the store and start making your own. Here's how to make this great elixir at home.

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Video: A Complete Guide To Home Canning

Want to preserve your seasonal produce? Then you'll appreciate this complete guide to home canning which breaks down all of the essentials.

How To Pickle Cauliflower With Chipotle Peppers

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How To Pickle Cauliflower With Chipotle Peppers

Looking for new ways to prepare cauliflower? Learn how to pickle cauliflower with chipotle with this quick and easy video recipe.

How To Preserve Peppers - 2 Quick N' Easy Techniques

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Gourmet Cooking

How To Preserve Peppers - 2 Quick N' Easy Techniques

Want to learn how to preserve peppers? Here are two quick and easy techniques you can try today.

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The Science of Food

The Science of Salting: How to Preserve Food With Salt

Salting is a food preservation method that confers a unique flavour to food whose refinement derives from its high degree of salinity: here it's how it works.

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9 Different Recipes for Canning

If you're looking to step into the world of canning then take a look at this infographic that offers up 9 different canning recipes.

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An Easy Way To Keep Herbs Fresh

The Herb Keeper is a handy kitchen tool that helps fresh herbs last longer. It's perfect for preserving your summer herbs!

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Infographic: How To Can Stone Fruit

Learn how to can stone fruit like peaches and plums with this nifty infographic full of helpful tips and tricks.

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5 Easy Jam Recipes To Make This Weekend

Looking for easy jam recipes? Try these delicious homemade jams made with the best fruits of the season.

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Food Books

Spring Cookbooks: Preview Hugh Acheson's 'Pick a Pickle'

Here's a sneak peek at Hugh Acheson's new cookbook Pick a Pickle: 50 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, and Fermented Snacks.

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Middle Eastern Pickled Eggplant with Mint, Tarragon, Caraway and Parsley

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to fiery ferments and sweet-and-sour mostardas, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent the harvest season modernizing it

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Not Your Grandma’s Preserves: Heinz on Crack

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to sweet and sour mostardas and fiery ferments, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent months modernizing canning.

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Not Your Grandma’s Preserves: Homemade Mustard with Champagne

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to sweet and sour mostardas and fiery ferments, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, is modernizing the canning.

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Gourmet Food

Seasonal Spice: Apple Pie in a Jar, Five-spice Chutney, Gingerbread Jam

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to sweet and sour mostardas, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent the summer modernizing the canning canon.

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Gourmet Food

Not Your Grandma’s Preserves: Korean kimchi with daikon, cabbage and hot red pepper flakes

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, sweet and sour mostardas and fiery ferments, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent the summer modernizing the canning.

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Not Your Grandma’s Preserves: Blueberry Aigre-Doux

From booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to sweet and sour mostardas and fiery ferments, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent the summer modernizing canning.

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Not Your Grandma’s Preserves: Boozy Preserves

Booze-heavy jams and aigre-doux, to sweet and sour mostardas and fiery ferments, Canadian food writer, Amie Watson, spent the summer modernizing canning.

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How To Make Plum Jam and Chutney

Perk up your breakfast with these delicious homemade plum jam and chutney recipes.

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Food Design

Want To Preserve Food Sans Plastic? Try A Food Hugger

Reduce waste and preserve your food longer with Food Huggers, these silicone utensils 'hug' your food and keep it fresh so you can say au revoir to plastic.

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The Nordic Food Lab's Podcast on Fermentation

Curious about pickles and fermented foods? Get the lowdown on lactic acid fermentation in this podcast by the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen.

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Gourmet Cooking

Breakfast Jam Recipes

Are you looking for easy jam recipes? Here are three wonderful recipes that make the most of berries, plums and walnuts.

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Bees in Berkeley Middle Schools

The Edible Schoolyard, a new scheme in Berkeley that aims to build a beehive in every middle school in the area

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Food Preservation Tips | An FDL Guide To Vegetable Preservation

Cucumbers, carrots, peas: summer is full of vegetables. Here at Fine Dining Lovers, we've put together a guide of tips for preserving your summer vegetables

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Food Preservation | How To Make Sauerkraut Video

Learn how to make sauerkraut with this easy-to-follow video recipe courtesy of DC's Field to Fork Network

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Food Preservation | How To Make Pickles Infograph

Are you curious about how to pickle cucumbers? Learn all the food preservation techniques involved in making Americans favorite pickle

Food Preservation | How To Pickle Vegetables

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Food Preservation | How To Pickle Vegetables

Here is an easy guide for learning how to pickle your summer vegetables, which is a great way of preserving vegetables

Food Preservation | Tips For Freezing Vegetables

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Food Preservation | Tips For Freezing Vegetables

Are you stumped when it comes to preserving vegetables? Learn the easy techniques for freezing your summer vegetables

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Fruit Preservation | Learn How To Preserve Summer Fruit

Master the art of preserving cherries, strawberries, peaches and more with our special how-to guide full of tips and techniques for fruit preservation

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Food Preservation | How To Preserve Peaches

If you want to enjoy sweet peaches long after the summer is gone all you have to do is preserve them. Follow our simple guide to learn how to preserve peaches

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Food Preservation: How To Preserve Cherries

Learn how to preserve cherries without the fuss. Follow our step-by-step guide to find all the techniques to preserve cherries for the whole year.

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Food Preservation Methods: How to Preserve Strawberries

Enjoy the goodness of strawberries year round with these easy preservation techniques

How to Plate like a Pro

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How to Plate a Risotto Like a Chef

How do you plate a risotto?

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How to Plate Salmon Like a Chef

Play with textures, colors and shapes on the plate and find out how to plate a simple weeknight salmon dish like a chef.

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How to Plate Curry Like a Chef

Whatever type of curry you fancy, you can upgrade it by a notch or two by using some of these simple techniques, tricks and tools of chefs.

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How to Plate a Fruit Tart Like a Chef

How do you plate a fruit tart like a chef?

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How to Plate Minestrone Soup Like a Chef

How does a chef plate a minestrone soup? Don’t just dump it into the bowl.

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How to Plate Smoky Ribs Like a Chef

From outback ribs to fine dining ribs, get yourself a basic smoking gun online and follow these simple techniques and tricks from chefs to transform your fav

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How to Plate Steak Like a Chef

How do you plate something so simple like a steak, like a chef? Bring the wow factor to your steak and salad.

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How to Plate Spaghetti Like a Chef

Transform your weeknight dinner hero: spaghetti.

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How to Plate Cheesecake Like a Chef

How do you plate a cheesecake like a chef? Bring the fun to your delicious cheesecake with caramelization, colors and textures.

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How to Plate a Salad Like a Chef

How do you plate a salad?

Nut Milk

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How to Make Almond Milk at Home

Have you run out of almond milk? Discover how to prepare your own nut milk at home and why the consumption of nut milks has increased in the past years.

Coconut Milk from A to Z: 26 Things to Know

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Food Facts from A to Z

Coconut Milk from A to Z: 26 Things to Know

What is Coconut Milk? 26 interesting facts and figures about the liquid that comes from mature coconuts, used to cook savoury and sweet dishes.

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Vegan Food

6 Terrific Dairy-Free Milk Substitutes

Looking for the best tasting milk substitutes? Get the lowdown on vegan milk alternatives made with hemp, almonds, coconut and other vegetarian ingredients.

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Make Nut Butters and Milks

This simple infographic takes a look at increase in people consuming nuts with some suggestions on how to make your very own nut butters and milks.

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Vegan Food

Plant-Based Milk Uncovered

If you were ever looking at milk options, here is a list and detailed explanation of vegetable milks, from almond milk to soy, find out which one you like.

Recipe ideas for Today

Alessandro Bergamo Crispy gnocchi and Asparagus

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S.Pellegrino Young Chef Cookbook

Crispy Gnocchi and Asparagus

Alessandro Bergamo is the sous-chef at Ristorante Cracco by Carlo Cracco in Milano.

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Chocolate Tahini Babka by Jake Cohen

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Roasted Chicken Matzo Soup by Jake Cohen

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African Cuisine

Traditional and Tasty: Moroccan Beef Stew

Learn how to cook a traditional North African dish, Moroccan beef stew, with tips, ideas and a traditional recipe from Fine Dining Lovers.

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Cocktails

The Negroni - The Classic Recipe

The classic Negroni is a very simple drink, and with the advice of bartender Ivan Della Nave, you can learn how to make this timeless Italia

Eggplant with Egg Yolk, Black Garlic and Cherry Blossom by Flynn McGarry

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Eggplant with Egg Yolk, Black Garlic and Cherry Blossom by Flynn McGarry

US chef Flynn McGarry was crowned as a culinary prodigy at the tend

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Spicy Arrabbiata Sauce Recipe

Branzino by Mei Lin

Chef Mei Lin is the chef/owner of Nightshade restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, where she showcases an elegant elevation of classi

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Italian Cuisine

Learn how to cook this delicious and spicy traditional Italian sauce at home. Fine Dining Lovers has the easiest step-by-step recipe for arrabbiata

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