Arugula's lobed leaves and spicy taste are as distinctive as its name. We've pulled together the best recipes to give this plucky green the spotlight it deserves. Click through for salads, seafood, pasta, quiche, and more.

In Season: The best flavor, peppery yet sweet, comes from plants grown rapidly in cool climates and harvested young. Arugula is an ideal early-spring and fall crop.

What to Look For: Arugula should be bright green and fresh looking.

How to Store: Wrap arugula tightly in a plastic bag and refrigerate for no more than two days.

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Whether it's bright and beautiful berries or lip-puckering rhubarb that's spotted at the grocery store or farmers' market, I'm instantly in the mood to take out my pie plate, flour, and baking tools and start making some beautiful summer pies, and you should, too.

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Blackberry and Meyer Lemon Gin and Tonics
Serves 4

Ingredients:
12 blackberries
20 fresh mint leaves
2 Meyer lemons (can sub. regular lemons)
1/4 cup simple syrup
12 ounces good quality gin
tonic water
ice

1. Set out four high ball glasses.
2. Place 3 blackberries, 5 mint leaves, juice of ½ lemon, and 1 tablespoon simple syrup in each glass and muddle together.
3. Fill each glass with ice, followed by 3 ounces of gin. Top off each

This new contraption scrapes the fat right off food. THE DAILY MEAL

Credit: Fat MagnetYou know when you see a commercial for a new food-related product and know you just have to have it? This isn't one of those times. Introducing the Fat Magnet, a new device that magically removes the fat from all of your foods. Sounds great, right? Just wave it over a cheeseburger, and suddenly it's fat-free. Except that's not how it works. At all.

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In order to use the Fat Magnet, you first need to freeze whatever food you're trying to remove the fat from, which lets the fat move to the top. From there, you can just slide the contraption over the top of the food, and it'll scrape the fat right off it.

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So while we're not

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'Mock' Sushi (Pictured Above)

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INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups sushi rice, cooked
•

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Grilled Chicken Kebabs and Potatoes (Pictured above)

INGREDIENTS:

For the kebabs:

6-10 skewers (soak briefly in water if wooden)
2-3 boneless chicken breasts Salt and pepper to taste
1 ½ teaspoons of seasoning spice mixture, preferably merken (or paprika if you don't want heat)
Olive oil (to dress)
15 small red bliss potatoes
12 pearl onions (red and white, if possible), peeled
12 baby bell peppers, stems sliced off 10 baby Portobello mushrooms, stemmed if that's your thing
½ zucchini, cut in 1-inch slices
Cherry tomatoes
4 jalapeños

For the salad:

¼ head iceberg lettuce
¼ head red cabbage
Fresh lemon juice

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Credit: Modern FarmerThe cost of produce continues to climb every year, but in comparison to these produce, what we find in the grocery is a bargain.

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Eight pineapples harvested by botanists at The Lost Gardens of Heligan were produced at a cost of £10,000 (aprox. $15,200). Nurtured with horse urine and 30 tons of manure over the span of two years, these prized pineapples were not for sale, as the farmers growing them kept them amongst themselves.

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In Japan, a pair of 8.1-pound Yubari melons rang up at 1.6 million yens (aprox. $15,730), while Ruby Roman grapes cost $6,400, so about $255 per grape, which is a 50 percent increase from last year.

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Potatoes, normally