Hi! I’m back from vacation — rested, sunburned and extremely well-fed. Although cooking is part of my livelihood, it’s also my happy place, and a vacation gives me more time and head space to revel in it. I could take as much time as I liked dreaming up meal plans, experimenting with new ingredients, fussing…
Capers in our house could end up anywhere. My mother used to mix them with some soft herbs and olive oil to make a kind of rough salsa verde and spoon it over fried or roasted cauliflower. She also introduced them into German-style potato salads, with onion, mustard and broth. My father would fry the…
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Well, folks, it’s miserable out there. The heat, the humidity, the bugs, the wildfire smoke, the impending threat of El Niño. But at least we have ice cream. Yes, it’s finally that time of the year for my annual newsletter about the undisputed champion of summer (after mosquitoes). Here’s my new list of frosty options…
The conveyor belt was ready, the empty bottles were stacked and the machinery was about to splutter into life. But one more step was needed before any beer bottling could get underway. That last step required a monk. Within a minute or two, Father Joseph Delargy appeared, dressed in the white robes of the Cistercian…
Headliner Rua Thai Kornpon Theeraumpornkul, the chef and an owner of this charming new Thai spot, comes from central Thailand, where Damnoen Saduak, one of the largest of the country’s famous floating markets, is located. His new restaurant is inspired by those markets, and decorated with photos of them and food they might deliver. (His…
Poached chickens and roasted chickens dangle in the window of Hainan Chicken House on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. A chicken-size sculpture of a chicken stands above the door. Scattered among the plain white tiles on the dining-room walls are other tiles printed with images of chickens. And if you order one of the…
Hi, friends! Margaux Laskey here filling in for Emily Weinstein today (she’ll be back next week). I’ve missed this little corner of the internet! I hope you’ve been well. I’m writing this from the passenger seat of a minivan that’s barreling down the highway to pick up my kids from summer camp. While I cannot…
The South Side of Chicago brims with inimitable African American culture and history, and the pastry chef Maya-Camille Broussard is adding her brand of sweetness to the place where she was born and raised. In June, Ms. Broussard opened the first brick-and-mortar store of her longtime delivery and wholesale pie business, Justice of the Pies. The…
I knew and was impressed with the wines of Pearl Morissette on the Niagara Peninsula in Canada when I visited in 2015, but I was not familiar with the Ars Amandi orange pet-nat from Tenuta Santa Lucia in Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy. I ordered both as I prowled The Waves, a new platform for buying…