Dawn Perry
Digital Food Editor, Emeritus
Dawn Perry is the author of Ready, Set, Cook; How to Make Good Food With What's on Hand and a former digital food editor at Bon Appétit. Before joining Condé Nast, she developed recipes in the kitchens of Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, and Real Simple. She got her culinary start at Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco and has since worked in professional kitchens and private homes on both coasts. After BA, she returned to Real Simple as food director and made stints editing for Delish and Marley Spoon before co-founding her own direct-to-consumer line of baked goods, Superkind Cookies. She once made a burger for President Barack Obama.
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How Much Peanut Butter Is Too Much Peanut Butter?
Is a peanut butter snack good for you, or not so much?
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It's Time to Put the Spring Back Into Pasta Primavera
We're reinventing pasta primavera—back to what it should have been in the first place.
Recipes
Pasta Primavera with Crispy Onion Gremolata
We wanted a recipe that was a better expression of “primavera,” literally "spring" in Italian. We swapped the oft used tomatoes and angel hair pasta for sturdy linguini and the first of spring’s green offerings.
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Important: A Scone Is Not a Biscuit
Sure, they're made up of almost the same stuff, but a scone is not a biscuit.
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Snack, Attacked: Is a Smoothie Really Good for You?
A nutritionist tells us if a smoothie can be good for you.
Culture
This Grilled Naan Recipe Might Just Be Better Than Pizza
And the winner of our 2015 Readers' Choice Week contest is...
techniques
How Not to Screw Up Beans in a Pressure Cooker
Pressure cookers are an amazing tool, if you know how to use 'em right.
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Why You Should Be Making Garbage Salad (Hear Us Out)
What's a garbage salad? It's about to become your new lunchtime go-to.
Culture
A Saturday Dinner Party Menu Fit for a Casual Spring Evening (There Will Be Pudding)
From halibut confit to celery salad, this is your ideal spring dinner party menu.
techniques
Messed Up Grits? Yeah, Us Too. Here's How Not To
Grits are easy to make...but finicky at the same time. The trick? Low and slow. Low and slow. Low and slow.
Recipes
The Troy Monson
Yes, you can use regular oranges, but don’t you just love the color you get from blood oranges?!
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Greens and Cheese Vegetable Lasagna
A decent amount of béchamel keeps this tomato-less lasagna moist as it cools.
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14 Wedding Desserts That'll Make You Leave the Dance Floor
It's worth taking a break from dancing to grab one of these desserts.
Recipes
Six-Layer Chocolate-Coconut-Cashew-Graham Bars
Use your favorite nut—or mixed nuts—in place of the cashews.
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Vanilla-Bean Pots de Crème
The water bath insulates these custards from the dry heat of the oven to ensure a lush, creamy custard.
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Blueberry-Lemon Hand Pies
It may not seem like very much filling, but these handheld pastries deliver the perfect filling-to-crust ratio (and if you overstuff the dough, they’ll be impossible to seal).