• Books To Devour: 8 Culinary Must-Reads We're Loving

    Nothing stokes your appetite or desire for a big cooking project like digging into these great culinary must-reads. Whether you're looking to dive deep into the long and storied world of cheese, take a peek into the award-winning kitchens of molecular gastronomist Wylie Dufresne or get really, really geeky, we've got a book list for…

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  • Behold: Martha Stewart's Slow Cooker Commandments

    You can rely on Martha Stewart for all things home and garden, and her cookbooks are no exception. Her latest, Martha Stewart's Slow Cooker, is packed with everything you need to utilize this amazingly versatile kitchen appliance to the best of its myriad abilities. Before you fire it up and get cooking, make sure you…

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  • Braised Grass-Fed Beef Ragu With Creamy Polenta Recipe

    Leave it to a master of sustainability and style to author a vegetarian cookbook so chic we’re hiding our bacon. Danny Seo’s new recipe collection, Naturally Delicious, is an ode to all things from-scratch. They just happen to be really beautiful, too.  Before you walk away from this braised grass-fed beef ragu with creamy polenta recipe…

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  • The Foolproof Way To Make Pulled Pork Shoulder

    Food Republic’s column Ask Your Butcher seeks to answer FAQs in the world of butchery. Ethically minded butcher Bryan Mayer has opened butcher shops and restaurants and has trained butchers in the U.S. and abroad. He helped develop the renowned butcher-training program at Fleishers, where he is currently director of butchery education. In each column, Mayer tackles a pressing issue facing…

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  • Spring Stewing: Lamb & French Flageolet Beans

    What is practiculture? It’s what happens when you leave big-city life to tend your garden, hunt in your backyard and prepare meals according to what’s in season instead of what’s on the supermarket shelves. Modern-day Australian “food warrior” Rohan Anderson’s new collection of recipes follows the practical nature of cooking from the homestead, something everyone should…

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  • 12 Recipes To Warm Up Your Slow Cooker

    "Low and slow" season is almost upon us, so break your slow cooker out of storage and fire up these 12 hearty meals. There's something satisfying about a bubbling Crock-Pot that somehow makes you feel like you've done more than toss a bunch of ingredients into a reliable appliance. And yet that's all you need to…

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  • Slow-Roast, Fast-Prep Leg Of Lamb Recipe

    We’re working our way through British chef and “lightening-up” empress Lorraine Pascale’s new book, Everyday Easy. Just because it’s light and simple doesn’t mean it can’t be flavor-packed and beautiful.  Now, this is a slow-cook but very fast-prep dish, so I thought I would add it to the book. I made this at home one Sunday, just…

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  • Slow-Cooker Southern Black-Eyed Pea Soup Recipe

    Welcome to America's Test Kitchen, the promised land of troubleshooting your most basic cooking fails and fixing problems you never knew you had. The editors' new cookbook: The Make-Ahead Cook, is an ever-useful guide that will unobtrusively lead you away from the the take-out menus and back into the kitchen where a much better dinner…

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  • Slow-Cooked Pear Butter Recipe

    DIY canning, pickling and fermenting is easy with food preservation and foraging expert Leda Meredith's latest book, Preserving Everything. Whether you're looking to store the last of your garden vegetables for the winter or simply craving a hearty stick of pork jerky, Meredith's techniques are time-tested and simple enough for the home cook to master. Ever…

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  • Slow Cooked Curried Chickpeas Recipe

    Slow-cooker chili is great, but if you're looking for a "set it and forget it" recipe with a little more spice, pick up a copy of author Neela Paniz's The New Indian Slow Cooker. This collection of classic Indian recipes made even simpler with your slow-cooker is a surefire way to ease into fall and…

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  • Indian Comfort Food: Kashmiri Potato Curry Recipe

    Slow-cooker chili is great, but if you're looking for a "set it and forget it" recipe with a little more spice, pick up a copy of author Neela Paniz's The New Indian Slow Cooker. This collection of classic Indian recipes made even simpler with your slow-cooker is a surefire way to ease into fall and…

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  • 7 Slow-Cooked Crockpot Lunches

    My resistance to cooking hearty rib-sticking food disappeared with the first fall chill a couple of weeks ago. Currently the weather in New York is being civil and everyone's letting their guards down. But any day now, boom! Frost. And everyone's going to be running for their braisers and slow-cookers willy-nilly, shoving smaller people out…

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  • Slow Cooker Chili Recipe

    If there's one classic recipe everybody needs to have ready at hand, it's chili. A slow-cooker or crockpot will make this already simplified dish even easier, but a nice heavy pot with a tight-fitting lid will do the trick as well. Break this recipe out for your next tailgate or even dinner date for a…

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  • Word Of The Day: Barbacoa

    Those of you who are Chipotle fans (count us in) may recognize barbacoa as one of the most delicious burrito fillings the chain has to offer. But what you might not know is that barbacoa is traditionally made from the meat of cow's or goat's head. Mmm...cabeza. Barbacoa, which loosely translates to "Mexican barbeque," is…

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  • Cabernet-Braised Lamb Shoulder

    Russell House Tavern serves this braised lamb shoulder over potato & parsley gnocchi and tops the dish with a soft poached egg

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