Baking basics, Torture Orchard, Iranian food, sorrel

What baking beliefs can you do without?

• Nicole Rucker rekindled her love for baking by tinkering with her favorite recipes and eliminating the fuss
• Gabriela Glueck visits the "Torture Orchard," where California's nut trees are pushed to the brink so they can withstand the curveballs thrown by climate change
• Nasim Alikhani spent decades working various jobs before realizing her calling — opening a restaurant to showcase the food of Iran
• Evan Kleiman recalls the crazy ride of the 1980s LA restaurant scene with Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table
• Often overlooked among springtime greens, chef Dashiell Nathanson is anything but sorry to use sorrel in his cafe dishes

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