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I often receive emails from our readers, who will ask questions about a recipe or culinary technique or share a memory about a dish we recently featured. Many of you have the same questions, and I am ...

I’ve tried all the old tricks to keep my tears at bay when cutting onions: sunglasses, swimming goggles, sticking out my tongue, running the sink faucet, and slicing them straight out of the fridge.

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Toward the end of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt,” a saga of the self under siege, we find Gynt deep in the forest, peeling a wild onion. He compares his many selves – cheat, shipwreck survivor, liar, ...