The blustery, freezing December weather is bad for many things — my hair, my commute, my morning run. But it’s awfully good for baking a cheesy pasta in a skillet. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t make this cozy, gooey Cheddar-rich casserole in nicer weather. But the colder, darker and gloomier the day, the…
When Diana Tandia makes jollof rice, she lets it burn a little at the bottom of the pot, just enough so that smoke rises to possess every grain. At Berber Street Food, the tiny restaurant she opened in the West Village in September, the rice arrives stained reddish-orange, with smoke still in its soul. After…
Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. For a new feature, “Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain,” which appears today, Times journalists wanted to approach the opioid crisis from an underrepresented perspective: to illustrate, in pictures and words, what each step of…
You’re in a diner from yesteryear, sliding onto a stool at a long Formica counter. On the back bar are glass pots of brewed coffee perched on hot plates and a bank of heavy-duty waffle irons, ready and waiting. You’ve come expressly for a breakfast waffle, but not just for the waffle. It’s the whole…
On a sunny summer day in Montauk, Ipek Irgit was in the familiar situation of not knowing what she was doing with her life. It was 2012, and she was 34 years old. Earlier in the year, after having her heart broken, she had taken a vacation in Brazil, visiting Rio de Janeiro and the…
In 2018, T’s food stories took us not only inside notable restaurants — like Missy Robbins’s new Brooklyn outpost, Misi, and its temperature- and humidity-controlled pasta room — but also to the Chesapeake Bay, where oysters are potentially becoming too perfect, and to Japan, where a group of new-school technicians is reviving the ancient confectionery…
A mutual friend at work had set us up, and from the moment he walked into that dark hipster bar, late and apologetic, I knew he was The One. My friend was right, he was so my type: sleepy eyes and a crooked smile, shirt half-untucked and already a little drunk. From the way he…
Name: Salehe Bembury Age: 32 Hometown: Manhattan Now lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Claim to fame: Mr. Bembury is a cult designer of opulent fashion sneakers, first at Yeezy, where he designed combat and lace-up boots for Seasons 3 and 4, and now at Versace, where his…
Whether you’ve grown weary of your dishes or are looking to furnish your cabinets for the first time, setting an Instagram-worthy dinner table doesn’t have to be stressful or expensive. Michael Sullivan, kitchen writer at Wirecutter, has held multiple restaurant jobs, from dining-room manager to pantry chef. He’s researched and tested water and wine glasses,…
Rinsing chicken or turkey before cooking it is an ingrained step for many home cooks, passed down through generations and reinforced by cookbooks. Recipes like the “Perfect Roast Chicken” in “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” from 1999 advise cooks to “Rinse the chicken inside and out.” But that doesn’t reflect the science. To wash or not…