How a Nutrition Expert Really Eats
We asked a nutrition professor and dietitian how she keeps up healthy habits without stressing about food.
We asked a nutrition professor and dietitian how she keeps up healthy habits without stressing about food.
Welcome to my new column, Ask Kenji. I’ve spent the last decade and a half of my career rigorously researching and testing recipes, techniques and widely accepted kitchen wisdom to figure out the whys of cooking. I’ll try to answer the questions you’d answer yourself — if you had the resources and time, diving into…
Of all the wildly popular American takes on Italian cuisine (spaghetti and meatballs; fettuccine Alfredo; chicken Parmesan), the latest to go viral is lasagna soup, thanks to one TikTok user with a Lego set and a thing for pasta. Christina Morales got the whole story for The New York Times, and naturally we have the…
I recently moved in with a man. Until now, for the last decade, I lived alone in a shoe-box studio apartment on the north end of Manhattan with my dog, Quentin Compson. Now the man, the dog and I live in a shoe-box one-bedroom in Brooklyn. It took awhile to get used to having another…
Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods was founded in 1978, but it wasn’t until several years later that the company hit upon the thing that made its oats, groats and other natural food products so immediately recognizable on supermarket shelves. That was when the likeness of Bob Moore, the company’s eponymous founder, began appearing on the…
Headliner Lolita The name couldn’t be more innocent or less Nabokovian. Lola, the 2½ -year-old daughter of Jillian Lockhart, an owner, was the inspiration. This unusual two-story lounge and restaurant has a distinctive point of view when it comes to drinks. The bar, shelves and lockers throughout the place have restricted the spirits offerings mostly…
On Feb. 22, 1797, while George Washington celebrated his 65th birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, his celebrated chef, Hercules Posey, slipped from the meager enslaved quarters at Mount Vernon, the president’s Virginia estate. Stepping into the damp night under the light of a waning moon, he found his freedom, only to be lost to…
Upon entering the new Millesima USA wine shop, relocated earlier this month from a few blocks uptown, you’re in a no-frills array of shelves, racks and bins in a well-lit windowed setting. Emphasizing Bordeaux, Burgundy and Italy, with other major regions, including Spain, the United States and Australia, represented as well, there are pedigreed bottles…
Hi, Five Weeknight Dishers. It’s Krysten, former editor of this very newsletter, stepping in for Emily this week. If we are what we eat, then I’m about 20 percent coffee and 80 percent soup — especially in winter. But the problem with soup is that you have to play the long game: It takes time…
Carla Hall’s tarot card reading was running long. Astrology, numerology, psychics, the Chinese zodiac — she’s open to all manner of metaphysical messaging. I slipped off my shoes in the foyer of her century-old house in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, D.C., out of respect for a recent million-dollar gut renovation. Then I went to…