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Salads
Caprese salad
Tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil and olive oil, with nothing to hide behind. There's no stove involved, so the lesson is in the choices you make: ripe tomatoes kept out of the refrigerator, salt given a few minutes to work, cheese that isn't fridge-cold, and basil torn only at the last moment.
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Soups
Hot and sour soup
This soup is a lesson in balance and timing. Vinegar brings the sour, white pepper brings the heat, and a cornstarch slurry gives it the silky body that holds up every strand of mushroom, tofu and egg. Almost everything happens in the last five minutes, so the whole trick is having it lined up.
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