“I want African-American barbecuers properly acknowledged, celebrated for their contributions and sharing in the barbecue prosperity,” writes the food historian Adrian Miller in his new book, “Black Smoke.” Mr. Miller is fed up with the general lack of recognition given to the Black barbecuing community by the media, in cookbooks and on the barbecue event…
WOODBRIDGE, CONN. — For Bun Lai, cicadas are mesmerizing to eat, their sweet, bitter flavor reminiscent of walnuts, chestnuts and adzuki beans, and their gently crunchy exterior giving way to creaminess, like a soft shell crab. Every technique for cooking them “brings out different tones and shades,” he said. Mr. Lai, 47, is the chef…
When Forever Jerk’s operation in Brooklyn is going full throttle, the smoke is visible from at least a quarter-mile away. I saw it for the first time as I was driving down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Starrett City housing complex, and I thought somebody had thrown a couple of couches out on the street and…
“I’ve gone full L.A.,” Roxane Gay recently told T, by which she meant she’s gotten into juices and cleanses and “going to the farmers’ market and getting super-fresh produce.” The 46-year-old media multihyphenate — she’s an author, a columnist, a film and TV writer and a podcaster — has lived “full-ish time” in Los Angeles…
“Hi, I’m Roxane Gay, and welcome to my kitchen in Los Angeles. Today I’m going to be making chicken Milanese with my wife Debbie Millman. It’s her favorite dish, and it’s actually the first thing I ever cooked for her. When I moved into the house everything was painted white and I could not abide…
Eitan Bernath, a 19-year-old TikTok star with more than 1.6 million followers, began posting cooking content to the platform in 2019. Like many Generation Z TikTok chefs, he taught himself to cook by watching YouTube and the Food Network. He would share the things he made to Instagram, but never gained much traction. Within 24…
If The Outnet was already one of your favorite sites for hunting down deals on in-demand labels, get ready to minimize all of your open tabs. The e-tailer just kicked off its Spring Sale with the steepest discounts you can expect to see from the site until the end of summer. Think brands like Ulla…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. When Shirley Kost and her husband moved from Chicago to North Texas in 1979, they transferred their baseball devotion from the Cubs to the Texas Rangers, attending home games and regularly traveling to the team’s…
“When I was a kid, I had the sense things were more difficult for me,” Tiffany Bui recalled. It was hard for her to focus in school, and she was often forgetful. Throughout her life, she said, members of her family criticized these traits as faults. In the fall of 2020, when she was a…
Yes, Charles Sobhraj and Marie-Andrée Leclerc were dangerous psychopaths. In the 1970s, the suave Frenchman murdered a slew of backpacking hippies in Thailand and Nepal, while his Quebecois accomplice helped draw potential victims into their net. But the couple also possessed a singular sex appeal — which helped them in luring those victims. Their real-life…