Naengmyeon has many faces, but the most familiar today is probably mul naengmyeon, which translates to “water cold noodles” — the water in fact referencing the cooling beef broth that suspends the chewy buckwheat noodles. Its predecessor, Pyongyang naengmyeon, has been enjoyed in Korea since at least the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). As a dish that…
Here we are, the day before Thanksgiving, and it’s time to iron out all the last little details that remain to be resolved. For example, what’s your appetizer game this year? That is, if you serve appetizers at all (and my better newsletter half, Sam Sifton, emphatically does not). But I like to offer a…
Some of the 30 million passengers expected to fly domestically over this Thanksgiving holiday may be stunned by what’s available to eat and drink 30,000 feet up in the sky. To entice more travelers to pay premium fares and better stand out from the competition, major U.S. carriers have been significantly expanding their food and…
When I was growing up in New York City, my family didn’t give thanks before we ate. Instead, our dinners sometimes began with a running gag. My mother, the head of our secular Jewish household, would go unusually quiet and serious. “Let us say grace,” she’d start in a low voice, and my brother and…
Hello! It is Tuesday afternoon, and the big feast is in T-minus 48 hours. Let’s get straight into it, shall we? If you’re making mac and cheese for Thanksgiving — or for any cozy, comforting dinner now through winter — you’ll want to make this mac and cheese. Eric Kim developed his baked macaroni and…
Max Wittawat was a pastry chef at Spot Dessert Bar for 13 years, and sometimes you can see the imprint of that work in the Thai food he serves now as the chef of Bangkok Supper Club, a new restaurant in the West Village. His scallop ceviche is a dessert, essentially, or at least the…
Kabisera West A purveyor of Filipino fare in a Chinatown food court, adds this uptown branch. Sizzling plates of chicken adobo and bicol express pork belly, and fried chicken with sweet chile sauce, are the specialties. Gotham West Market 600 Eleventh Avenue (44th Street), 929-920-8250, kabisera.com. Rowdy Hall This reliable East Hampton favorite from Honest…
When I was growing up in Greenwich Village, my mother would take me uptown — an adventure in itself — to my pediatrician on Park Avenue. Afterward, we went to the Lexington Candy Shop on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 83rd Street for lunch (candy, deceptively, was in short supply). I’d have a chocolate…
We’re on the cusp of Thanksgiving, and whether you’re making one dish or eight this week, you’ve got some work ahead of you. How can I help? Do you need dead-simple dinners for the other nights of the week? Take a look at the five-star shrimp recipe below, and the chile crisp fettuccine Alfredo, too.…
When Dr. Georgianne Thomas, 80, an author and adjunct professor of humanities at Clark Atlanta University, pushes aside the yellow bracelet adorning her wrist to reveal a burn mark, the table of people she’s dining with are stunned. The mark, decades old but still visible, was left by a Ku Klux Klan member putting out…