Fish Made Easy

• recipe

  Poached Salmon with Herb and Caper Vinaigrette

  Poaching rarely lives up to its promise to produce silken, delicately flavored fish. We set out to eliminate chalky, tasteless poached salmon for good.

• equipment

  Mandolines

  Long the domain of chefs churning out precision-cut produce, mandolines are increasingly targeted toward the home cook. But does this specialty slicer really give you an edge?