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Each week we round up our favorite posts and recipes from our friends at The Kitchn.

This week, the Kitchn suggests we should start prepping for the holiday season now—get your baking tools ready!
Also on the Kitchn:
- Making the Most of Vanilla Beans: Have You Tried This Tip? Check out Sarabeth Levine's Chow Tip method of getting all those teeny tiny seeds out of a vanilla pod.
- 5 Troublesome Cocktails & Spirits Terms : Do you know your whisky from your whiskey? A pony from a jigger? Here are five sets of cocktails and spirits terms that are the most frequently flummoxing.
- 5 Dinners Using Two Pots Or Less: Cooking dinner can honestly seem like such a daunting task. But don't turn to take-out or fast food—turn to fast meals using just two pots or less.
- Fried Foods: Has the Trend Gone Too Far?: Carnival foods remind most of us of our childhood, of a simpler time with little thought of cholesterol or saturated fats.