The last time I went to the Peking Duck House on Mott Street, I drank a lot of good wine. This has nothing to do with the restaurant’s own list and everything to do with its longstanding policy of letting diners bring in wine, free of corkage fees. One of my friends came with a…
In the 1970s and ’80s, when Rainer Judd was growing up at 101 Spring Street in New York’s SoHo with her father, the artist Donald Judd, she’d sit in the building’s open windows, “because no one told me not to,” she said, and because back then, SoHo was a “creaky, dirty, lovely place.” In 1971,…
My flight to Lagos arrives at dusk, and I slide out to an airport buzzing with activity, commerce and community. For me, it’s also a confusion of crowds after the stillness of a 13-hour flight. Once I am in the car, driving to my parents’ house, I can see shadows along the roadside, forms emerging…
Pumpkin spice latte season, cuffing season, 12-foot Home Depot skeleton season — October has many an alias. But in my house, it’s borscht season. Growing up, my enjoyment of borscht was reserved to one day a year — Christmas, when my mom made a batch fit to feed a football team using the largest pot…
The pickers began to arrive at 7 a.m. at the home of Greg and Emily Ernst in Geyserville, Calif., to help harvest their half-acre zinfandel vineyard before the October day reached its 95-degree high. These are not professionals. They are family and friends for whom helping the Ernsts is an annual social highlight. The Ernsts,…
There isn’t too much we can add to the happy conversations swirling around this fire chicken, a recipe by Maangchi adapted by Sam Sifton. Her YouTube video for cheese buldak has been viewed over nine million times, and Sam’s adaptation on New York Times Cooking boasts over 3,000 reviews and has five stars. It’s a…
Then again, roasted broccoli would be a perfect partner to a bowl of Sue Li’s creamy turmeric pasta, which you can make on the stovetop while the oven is otherwise occupied. Sue’s recipe uses a genius, Parmesan-rich sauce of butter, garlic, shallots and cream tinted yellow with turmeric, which gives everything depth and spice. If…
Then again, roasted broccoli would be a perfect partner to a bowl of Sue Li’s creamy turmeric pasta, which you can make on the stovetop while the oven is otherwise occupied. Sue’s recipe uses a genius, Parmesan-rich sauce of butter, garlic, shallots and cream tinted yellow with turmeric, which gives everything depth and spice. If…
Then again, roasted broccoli would be a perfect partner to a bowl of Sue Li’s creamy turmeric pasta, which you can make on the stovetop while the oven is otherwise occupied. Sue’s recipe uses a genius, Parmesan-rich sauce of butter, garlic, shallots and cream tinted yellow with turmeric, which gives everything depth and spice. If…
Frankly, I’d rather sift flour into a small bowl, peel potatoes with a dull paring knife or winkle out pomegranate arils wearing a white T-shirt than sort through green beans. That’s how much I love Scott’s take on the vegetable, from his debut cookbook, “Fix Me a Plate.” Slow-braised in rich, savory chicken stock, fortified…