What We Make for Our Kids

People with young kids often ask me what I cook for mine, since dinner can’t actually always be plain rice or pasta. (Or can it?) This goes doubly for what I put in my daughter’s lunch box: I’m sorry to tell you I don’t have any brilliant, genre-exploding solutions there. I always have that question…

This Is Thanksgiving

Good morning. Thanksgiving isn’t one day. It’s a season, an incantation, a way of thinking about the world. And for those of us at New York Times Cooking, the holiday begins now: three weeks of planning and shopping, cooking and baking, counting forks and knives and wondering if there’ll be enough room at the table…