With their ever-increasing line of products bearing the New York Shuk label, Ron and Leetal Arazi are putting the Middle East, with an emphasis on Jewish and Moroccan flavors, on the table. Their latest is a thick, all-purpose tomato-based condiment called matbucha, a homemade staple of North African origin that is ubiquitous in Israeli households.…
In the run-up to Halloween, the Brooklyn Kitchen, which just started giving cooking classes in the Essex Market on the Lower East Side, has scheduled hands-on lessons for savories and sweets for the holiday. Halloween pasta — black squid ink with a lemon-herb sauce and pumpkin gnocchi with a brown butter and sage sauce —…
“Sometimes I’m like, ‘Wow, I birthed this thing out of my garage,’” Mr. Guerra said, laughing. “Look how many cool things came out of garages: Steve Jobs, the Ramones. In other places — for example, Mexico — man, you’re a legend if you can kit your house out and you have a little storefront on…
The colder months feature citrus. This year, Evan Obsatz, an owner of the Butterfield Markets on the Upper East Side, and his produce specialist, John Weintraub, have gathered offbeat varieties of the fruit in the Madison Avenue store. Yuzu, a green- or yellow-skinned fruit with a flavor that’s increasingly popular thanks to Japanese chefs but…
There’s a new domestic prosciutto from True Story Foods with a personality all its own. It’s a mellow, silky ham, less robust and salty than some, but lovely on a charcuterie board or in a sandwich. Russ Kremer, a Missouri hog farmer and partner based in the foothills of the Ozarks, has established a network…
Can there be an upside to wildfires that ravaged some California vineyards? At Hangar 1, a spirits company in Alameda, Calif., they may have found one. Smoke Point Vodka is distilled from the juice of Napa Valley merlot and malbec grapes damaged in the 2020 Glass fire. Crimson Wine Group, the owner of Pine Ridge…
The province of Liguria on the northwest Italian coast has a diverse cuisine that varies greatly from the coast to the inland regions. Along the sea, the necklace of Italian Riviera resorts and the cosmopolitan city of Genoa serve elegant fare like stuffed veal rolls, decorative corzetti pasta, zucchini flowers and specialties also typical of…
Good morning. We’re just a month out from Thanksgiving, 30 days from a holiday that last year was deeply strange for a lot of us and that this year promises — what, a return to everything as it was in 2019? Probably not. We’re excited about what’s coming, but nervous, too. We’re managing as best…
There are family members we never get to meet, those whose absences are filled by the memories of the people who knew them. I never met my great-grandmother Osunfunke Thomas (nee Olatunji), but I’ve formed an image of her from the story of her passing, as told to me by my mother and her sisters.…
When I first wrote about Instant Pots back in 2017, it was with the ardor of new love. I’d fallen hard for my first electric pressure cooker, delighting in the myriad ways it could improve my kitchen life. All those weeknight meals of dried beans and silky braised meats, the speedy brown rice, the endless…