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31 Watermelon Recipes for When a Crisp, Cool Slice Isn’t Enough
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Turn summer’s biggest fruit into juicy drinks, bright salads, and more with our best recipes for watermelon.
Watermelon With Lime Dressing and Peanuts
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The jagged, irregular chunks of fruit in this salad recipe make it clear that something unexpected is about to happen.
Salted Watermelon Juice
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It’s two ingredients and the most refreshing thing you’ll drink this summer.
Hot Pink Punch
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Rim some glasses with spicy salt and make this juicy watermelon cocktail recipe for your summer barbecue. It’s an easy gin cocktail served by the pitcher.
Spicy Watermelon Onigiri
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This playful take on spicy tuna onigiri swaps watermelon (yes, watermelon!) for the fish, resulting in a vegan bite that tastes (surprisingly) like the real deal. 
Watermelon Gazpacho 
With Feta Crema
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A super-juicy watermelon is key; it should feel heavy for its size and sound hollow when tapped.
Watermelon, Endive, and Fig Salad
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Perfect as either a side salad or a cocktail hour snack platter, you’re going to want to keep serving this mix of complementary sweet and salty and crunchy and soft bites all summer long.
Our Best Melon Recipes for Cantaloupe, Honeydew, and Watermelon
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This summer, take juicy, ripe cantaloupes, honeydews, and more beyond the fruit plate. These are our best melon recipes.
3 New Ways to Make Watermelon Even More Awesome
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The ultimate summer snack just got a revamp.

Andrew Knowlton

These 3 Ingredients Make All Watermelon Taste Amazing, Even the Meh Stuff
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If your watermelon is a bit lacking in the flavor department, here's how to save it.

Carey Polis

Watermelon, It's What's for Dinner (Or Breakfast, Or Lunch)
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Consider the watermelon beyond simple wedges.

Bon Appétit

Ice Pops
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And thanks to People's Pops new cookbook, you can get your hands good and sticky with the trend

Meryl Rothstein

10 Reasons You Should Buy a Watermelon RIGHT NOW
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New ways to use summer's most refreshing fruit

Danielle Walsh

Brad Makes Fermented Watermelon Cocktails
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We're back for the 91st episode of It's Alive with Brad Leone and today our guy is mixing up a batch of fermented watermelon cocktails, one of the featured recipes in his new cookbook Field Notes for Food Adventure: Recipes and Stories from the Woods to the Ocean. Sweet and spicy with a hint of salt, Brad's fermented watermelon cocktails make for an ideal end-of-summer beverage - either non-alcoholic or with some mezcal for the adult set.

Read More: 31 Watermelon Recipes for When a Crisp, Cool Slice Isn’t Enough
Watermelon Poké
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We show you how to make watermelon poké.
Upside Down Plum Cake With Tangy, Gooey Caramel
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Join Rachel Gurjar in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she makes her plum and lime upside down cake. Juicy plums unite in a luscious sauce with deep caramel notes and sharp lime flavor for an irresistible taste that will call for seconds.

Get Rachel’s full recipe here: Plum & Lime Upside Down Cake
A Fantastic Dessert Your Guests Can Assemble Themselves
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Allison Roman shows us how to make Peaches in Caramelized Honey with Toasted Oats and Ice Cream.
How to Make Ice Pops
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BA editor Allie Lewis Clapp and Fany Gerson, author of the definitive ice pop “cookbook,” Paletas, show how to make your own ice pops, going heavy on the fresh seasonal fruit, light on the sweetener, and adding a touch of salt to heighten the whole thing.
Charred Watermelon Punch
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Watermelon slices on the grill adds summer BBQ vibes to this cocktail featuring Don Julio Blanco.