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The 16 best new cookbooks to get you through fall
It’s time to hunker down with recipes for roast chicken, vegan curries, and so many kinds of cookies.

Chapter 1: The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s going to be delicious.

Chapter 2: Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Beans have always been a punch line, an insult, unfairly maligned. The musical fruit. Something you’re full of. A whole hill of them? Not worth much.

Chapter 3: Herbs might save us

Don’t forget to celebrate spring.

Chapter 4: Let a nation of bread bakers arise

Often seen as the final, intimidating frontier of baking, bread is now becoming our national project.

Chapter 5: The freezer is a time capsule

Today I took out a tub of soup from the freezer. Turkey barley. My mother brought it the last time she visited. Once it’s gone, I don’t know when I’ll taste my mother’s cooking again.

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Chefs are parents, too. Here are their tips if your kitchen is now a makeshift school cafeteria

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Elm Street Sweets brings a little bit of sugar to a sour time

Peanut butter fudge pie, sea salt chocolate chip cookies, and more from the team behind Rosebud.

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Recipe: Roasting plums slowly with vanilla sugar turns them deliciously sweet and jammy

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Salt Bae is opening a Boston restaurant this weekend

The suave Instagram sensation will open Nusr-et on Friday.

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Do you finally have time for an online cooking class? We have suggestions

There are so many you can take right now — to improve your kitchen skills, keep the kids busy after school, cook like a pro, or brush up on pastry making.

One-of-a-kind oyster knives made on the Cape

Fred Carpenter and Tom Davenport run Cape Cod Cutlery and hand-make one-of-a-kind blades in a garage in Marstons Mills.

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A lack of experience didn’t stop them from opening a coffee shop, and a pandemic can’t stop them either

SlackTide Coffee Roasters in Marshfield is thriving, with specialty coffee and doughnuts worth lining up for.

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Meet Rojal Shrestha from Kantipur Café, now selling pizza and momos in Cambridge

“When opportunity strikes, you just do it,” he says.

Send a message with Collettey’s Cookies

North End entrepreneur now offers gift boxes, dog biscuits, and online ordering.

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So many Boston restaurants have closed. It’s just the tip of the iceberg

With PPP money running dry and the outdoor dining season coming to a close, the industry is on a precipice.

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An award-winning chef comes to Newton, Il Capriccio returns to Waltham, Boston Public Market prepares to reopen, and more

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