Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1994
Forget the classic method of snipping each leaf, trussing, and then boiling for an hour. Just slice the stem and top, then steam.
For a better, quicker artichoke recipe, we found that steaming worked well. We put whole artichokes, stem end up, in about an inch of water in a heavy-gauge nonreactive pot with a tight-fitting lid. A steaming rack was useful but not necess...