The two key elements to the perfect apple pie are flavor and texture. You want a balance of sweet and tart, without mushiness or mealiness. That’s why Golden Delicious and Braeburn apples, according to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, of Serious Eats, have the best flavor and texture for baking.

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Clearing the way for their smart home future of voice-recognition devices and intelligent Wi-Fi routers, Google has decided to rebrand the Google Cast app as Google Home, a destination to manage your smart devices. That and more in today’s news.

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If you want to peel a few tomatoes for a homemade sauce or batch of gazpacho, all you need is an open flame and those tomato skins will come off in no time.

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The start of a new year is when many people make a resolution to eat healthier, exercise more, and lose weight. But a recent study suggests that most of that weight people plan on losing is actually gained during the holidays. Now’s the time to make a preemptive strike.

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Natalie Amrossi’s future is up in the air. She left a burgeoning a career in finance to pursue her interest in photography, and now spends most of her time photographing city skylines from rooftops and copters.

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