You're Doing It All Wrong

How to Carve a Turkey with Mark Dommen

Hacking is for hacks. (By Meredith Arthur and Blake Smith)

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Cutting Corners

For box wine, it’s back to square one. (By Jordan Mackay)

CHOW Tip

How to Deal with Rusty Cast Iron

It’s not a castoff.

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Do You Suck the Heads?

Easter is crawfish-boil time in Louisiana. (By Lessley Anderson)

Supertaster

Better Bad Pizza

This week’s mission: a new higher-end pie by Pizza Hut. (By James Norton)

You're Doing It All Wrong

How to Brine Your Holiday Turkey with Michael Chiarello

Start with salt, of course. (By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith)

CHOW Tip

A Quick Technique for Homemade Orange Bitters

From Lucques restaurant.

Supertaster

White Lotus Vodka and Alouette Berries & Cream Spreadable Cheese

This week’s mission: a spirit that’s supposed to prevent hangovers, and middlebrow holiday cheese. (By James Norton)

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Will This $20 Change Your Mind?

Bribing the host or hostess for a table. (By Helena Echlin)

CHOW Tip

How to Bronze Your Salmon

It doesn’t involve a tanning bed.

Field Trip

Tomato Farmer

One man, a dog, and 15,000 heirloom plants. (By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith)

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Know Your Mushrooms

A visual guide to all your favorite fungi. (By Traci Vogel)

Obsessives

Obsessives: Innard Workings

Chris Cosentino wants you to eat the nasty bits. (By Meredith Arthur and Eric Slatkin)

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You're Mispronouncing "Achatz"

A cheat sheet on the topic of molecular gastronomy. (By Lessley Anderson)