Corn Recipes for Late Summer

When I stepped out for coffee this morning, I was met with the most welcome surprise: crisp, 65-degree air and a breeze stiff enough to make me wonder if I’d be too chilly in shorts. I blissfully strolled to my neighborhood cafe and ordered the first hot latte I’d had in six months. By God,…

In Detroit, a French Brasserie That Feels Like a Portal to Paris

By Laura Bannister The Brazilian artist Wanda Pimentel’s “Envolvimento” paintings (1968-84) are hard-edged domestic vignettes — kitchens, bathrooms, the insides of cars — rendered in a lean, almost festive palette of mostly reds, greens and yellows. In these claustrophobic spaces, feminine-seeming thighs, ankles, feet and hands make fetishistic cameos, jutting out at awkward angles or…

Taco Soup Recipe

Hi there! We’re so close to the holiday weekend, let’s ignore some emails and think about food. This beautiful, blue-skied shoulder season turns me into a greedy monster. I don’t want to give up summer, but I also want all of fall’s comforts: I want beach trips and blanket forts. Linen caftans and cashmere sweaters.…

Korean Fine Dining Restaurants in NYC

A few months ago, a number of serious food journalists asked out loud whether fine dining was dying, or possibly already dead. This seemed odd to me. I keep close tabs on the restaurant scene, especially in New York City, and if expensive restaurants were undergoing a mass die-off, I’d like to think I would…