Put down the Best Foods and step away from the Kewpie. As one of the foundational sauces of French cuisine, it’s worth mastering the art of making your own mayo. And it’s easy once you get a feel for it; with experience, you’ll ‘get’ how fast you can add the oil, how to adjust lemon juice so it’s in balance…

We hate peeling and coring quinces; it’s a dangerous endeavour. Those suckers are hard and it’s easy to slip and accidentally amputate some essential body part with a paring knife. So we love this Maggie Beer-inspired recipes to bits; you literally turf your unpeeled, uncored quinces into a dutch oven with a s%^&-ton of sugar, some water…