Five Weeknight Dishes: Flexible and Fabulous

Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes — though I think we should reframe, just this once, because starting Monday we’ll no longer be on Standard Weeknight Time. Even now, it feels like Christmas week, as I’m constantly searching for Scotch tape and scissors. So let’s rechristen this one Five Dishes, period, flexible dinners that…

Front Burner: Halal Foods, a Primer

Halal food will be the subject of a talk for the Culinary Historians of New York by Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene, Middle Eastern historians and the authors of “Halal Food: A History.” The authors will discuss the rules that govern food and drink for Muslims, and halal foods will be served before the lecture.…

What to Cook This Weekend

Good morning. I wrote you last when I was en route to Miami for work, and it wasn’t until that evening when I was walking south on the beach, heading toward a sublime meal at 27, that I realized I neglected to give you a no-recipe recipe to cook on Wednesday, as is my usual…

Heart Attack May Be Early Sign of Cancer

Image A heart attack or stroke may be an early sign of cancer. Researchers studied records of 374,331 Medicare beneficiaries, mean age 76, who were given cancer diagnoses from 2005 to 2013. They matched them with an equal number of controls without cancer. Then they retrospectively tracked heart attacks and strokes in the two groups…