Lentils You’re Loving

One thing I miss from the pre-Covid era is eating at friends’ homes, which I do sparingly at this point, and only with the precautions that you’d imagine. I love seeing what my friends decide to make, a fascination that is surely related to the fact that I’m a professional recipe recommender. Trying their dishes, another…

Vegetarian Broccoli Recipes

I’m on a broccoli-cooking spree, and last week, I was mesmerized by a whole head of chartreuse-colored romanesco — the whirling, psychedelic, beautifully repetitive structure. When I posted it to Instagram, the cookbook author Domenica Marchetti called it “the M.C. Escher of vegetables,” and the journalist Julia O’Malley told me she refers to it as…