Stories

• Use creme fraiche and edible flowers to make a stunning cake

• Mind your peas and Qs: The difference between English and sugar snap peas

• How to clean mushrooms

• Disregard labels like bittersweet and shop for chocolate by cocoa percentage

• Give the gift of pie: 6 mail-order picks

• How to carve ducks and geese

• What 'proof' on a liquor bottle really means

• When he couldn't find a book on modernist cuisine, Nathan Myhrvold wrote one

• How to select the best water temperature for brewing tea

• How to make and use dried chiles