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Topic: Umami

Plate of rainbow trout (Getty Images/Cathy Scola)

Take your home cooking to the next level

Jenny Dorsey - Institute of Culinary Education
Bacon and Maple Syrup (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The secret to better tasting bacon

Michael La Corte
Miso Cream Rigatoni with Caramelized Onions (Courtesy of Zach Zhang/Institute of Culinary Education)

A comforting five-ingredient pasta sauce

Joy Cho - Institute of Culinary Education
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Why is umami so hard to describe?

Maggie Hennessy - Food52
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Spaghetti with tomato sauce. (Getty Images)

Tomato subs for pantry pasta emergencies

Sam Sontag - Food52
Dietary supplement, unfortified nutritional yeast flakes in a wooden bowl and scoop. (Getty Images)

The science of nutritional yeast

Nik Sharma - Food52
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