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Enjoying Cantaloupe & Green Tomato Salad

This year may be remembered as the Year of the Green Tomato - at least in Northern California. Though more heirloom tomato varieties are showing up in markets, many backyard garden vines are still loaded with them, just waiting for a few more hot days. The... Heirloom tomato - Tomato - California - Fruit and Vegetable - Northern California

Garlic Lemon Shrimp

Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 35 minutes / Total time: 40 minutes Restaurateur Ralph Brennan prefers using jumbo shrimp with heads and tails left on for this dish from his "New Orleans Seafood Cookbook," but writes, "somewhat smaller ones can be used in a pinch." We used about half the vinaigrette; refrigerate the remainder for salads.

Cold sauces enhance your lettuce

Salad dressings and sauces share their definition: a flavourful liquid that enhances a finished dish. Salads are not all made out of lettuce, but they almost always depend on a dressing of one kind or another.

Shrimp 101: How to buy, prepare America's favorite seafood

America's favorite seafood? Shrimp. It's easy to see why; shrimp are available fresh or frozen, shell-on and peeled, raw and cooked. Shrimp lend themselves to countless dishes, from curries to gumbos to kebabs to stir fries.

If you think your kitchen is cramped, try cooking on a sailing ship

Imagine cooking for 10 to 60 people three times a day in a kitchen the size of a small closet. Then imagine that sometimes your closet is tilted about 15 degrees and bucking large waves on the Great Lakes or the ocean. That's just a taste of the challenges of cooking on tall ships that still ply the world's waterways.