These Veggies Are Sneaky

Hello, Five Weeknight Dishers! It’s Krysten, this newsletter’s editor, stepping out from behind the curtain while Emily is out. I’ve walked this planet for a full 37 years, but I still struggle to eat my vegetables. Of course I know they’re good for me, but the siren call of bread and cheese and pasta with…

‘Party Down’ Gets It: Food Service Is No Party

In their baby-pink bow ties and crumpled white shirts, the catering crew on the Starz series “Party Down” works event after wretched event across Los Angeles: dismal rich-kid sweet 16s and backstage parties for jaded superstars, awkward and unsuccessful suburban orgies, singles seminars for seniors, bland corporate retreats. But none of these workers take their…

What Nutritional Yeast Can Do for You

As both a food editor and a semi-functioning member of society, I’m a little embarrassed to admit how frequently I eat popcorn for dinner. (A couple of times a month, at least.) And I delude myself only slightly: It’s vegetable adjacent. Nutritional yeast is the backbone of my fine-tuned and finely ground house popcorn topping,…

Joshua Bell’s London

“The first time I came to London, I was 17,” the violinist Joshua Bell, now 54, told me. We were at dinner together following a recent performance of his at Wigmore Hall, a small but renowned concert hall. “I came with my parents to make my first album,” he continued. “This was in the ’80s,…