This Clam Chowder Recipe Is Easier Than Most

We’re on a high with cooking at my house. Pretty much everything we’re eating is from one farmers’ market or another, because glorious summer produce is upon us. It’s heavenly. The fresh, fully formed flavor of ripe, in-season fruits and vegetables makes cooking exciting — and easier. Take, for example, hothouse tomatoes. In winter, they…

The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths

For millions of years, mammoths lumbered across Europe, Asia and North America. Starting roughly 15,000 years ago, the giant animals began to vanish from their vast range until they survived on only a few islands. Eventually they disappeared from those refuges, too, with one exception: Wrangel Island, a land mass the size of Delaware over…

It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season

I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), but all I can say about Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette is this: If you haven’t made it yet, make it tonight. And if you’ve made it already, make it…

It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season

I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), but all I can say about Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette is this: If you haven’t made it yet, make it tonight. And if you’ve made it already, make it…

It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season

I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), but all I can say about Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette is this: If you haven’t made it yet, make it tonight. And if you’ve made it already, make it…

It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season

I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), but all I can say about Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette is this: If you haven’t made it yet, make it tonight. And if you’ve made it already, make it…