Egunsi Foods, a line of chilled ready-to-heat and eat West African foods from a company based in Harlem, has added three hearty pepper soups. Lemongrass-chicken, crayfish-chicken and vegan lemongrass-mushroom — thick with ingredients like chunks of succulent chicken and big sliced mushrooms — are richly haloed with spice. While satisfying on their own, they also take…
You can celebrate the Year of the Ox on the Asian lunar calendar on the day it starts, Feb. 12, by making dumplings with the chef Anita Lo. Her virtual class on 100 Pleats, a cooking website, will cover making wrappers and a filling of pork, shrimp and chives. Registration includes a shopping and equipment…
A copious array of comestibles for the Super Bowl from Tom Colicchio will more than satisfy a pandemic pod of four to six. Braised mojo pork, braised brisket, white corn tortillas and chips, along with a slew of condiments, including guacamole, black-bean salad, slaw, assorted pickles and salsa verde, can be ordered by Friday for…
For the first time, Brennan’s, one of the best-known restaurants in New Orleans, will sell its traditional ring-shaped purple, green and gold-frosted king cakes for nationwide shipping. The cake is 10 to 12 inches in diameter, serves 15 to 20 people and can be ordered until Feb. 15. (Mardi Gras is Feb. 16 this year.)…
Has vegan food ever been so beautiful? “Kajitsu,” a cookbook explaining the Zen Buddhist Shojin cuisine of Japan, offers page after page of magnificent seasonal dishes, with recipes. The book’s all based on the Murray Hill restaurant Kajitsu (now closed because of the pandemic), which moved to its present location from the East Village in…
You’ve heard of ghost kitchens, where chefs without brick-and-mortar restaurants work on food for delivery? Now, welcome Ghost Bar, an online cocktail service. Its menu of well-made premixed drinks, in 6- to 10-ounce portions ($12 to $24), ranges from classics like Negroni and Sazerac, to inventive libations, like the delicious Old Money with spiced rum,…
When Jack Carlson wears his mom’s old green Lehman Brothers sweatshirt around New York City, people try to buy it off his back. “People will just come up to me and offer me money for it in restaurants,” said Mr. Carlson, 33, the founder of the clothing company Rowing Blazers, which sells a contemporary version…
SALISBURY, England — On a recent Saturday afternoon, Margaret Drabble, 83, sat beneath the soaring arches of Salisbury Cathedral, swinging her legs back and forth under her chair like a schoolgirl. Minutes earlier, in a booth near the cathedral’s entrance, she had received her first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus. But that…
Carolyn Zain had heard horror stories about the nation’s coronavirus vaccine rollout: long waits, clunky websites, people being turned away. So when her health department announced it was expanding appointments, she armed herself with two phones and held her breath. Within 20 minutes, she secured a slot for the next day. She arrived for her…
Good morning. I was flying solo there for a couple of days, cooking only for myself. This was not as simple as I’d thought it might be, as many over the years have pointed out to me in letters and messages, at cocktail parties, at the end of news meetings, once at a funeral. The…