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No need to round up a box of tissues before setting out to make homemade French onion soup. Elena Grigorovich / Getty Images We can’t be the only ones who look like they just finished watching This is ...

There are a handful of things in the kitchen that make me fight back some tears. Accidentally grabbing the handle of a skillet that was in a hot oven, nicking the tip of my finger with a vegetable ...

Any cook will know the woes of chopping onions. No matter how careful one is, you just can’t help having tears streaming down your face as you slice and dice the pungent bulbs. Why do onions make you ...

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Onions might be the most metaphoric of all ingredients. They can be sweet or spicy, and they contain layers. And most poetic of all, they bring tears to our eyes. As the poet Pablo Neruda wrote in ...

The onion is a member of the plant family Liliaceae, which makes it a cousin to the lovely lilies. Its closer cousins are the grassy chive, the chunky leek and the nubby garlic — all strongly scented ...

We interact with science every single day without even realizing it. From “why onions make you cry” to “why bread goes stale” ...

Wipe away your tears, both figuratively and literally. When you learn how to cut an onion, you’ll be shocked to see how quickly and easily you can do it. With tips to keep you from crying when you cut ...