It’s been a busy year for the New York Times Cooking community, as you cooked your way through the changing seasons. Your responses to the more than 700 recipes we published in 2022 have been thoughtful, creative and truly inspiring! So here — drum roll, please — you’ll find The Times’s Margaux Laskey with the…
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that profiles women leading the way on climate, politics and business around the globe. Six days a week, Ana Shellem rises at 5:30 a.m. and checks the tide and wind conditions for the day. Then she maps out in her mind where on the…
Sometimes the chaos of life calls for an all-day cooking project — an artfully arranged ombré gratin, a braided challah or a big pot of Sunday sauce — something to busy your hands and settle your spirit. But most days, what you need is an easy meal: a dish that is simply prepared, if not…
Last week, I put a call out to Where to Eat readers for holiday-themed questions. You didn’t disappoint, sending in a fun mix of dining inquiries. One reader wanted to know which bars and restaurants have the best holiday decorations; another was looking for a special holiday meal before Christmas Day. There was also a…
Are we back to normal? As I shuffled through the archives to choose my favorites of the new restaurants I reviewed this year, it sure looked that way. New York City’s restaurant business, among the first pieces of the economy to fall to the pandemic and among the last to recover, has come roaring back…
Here, in no special order, is a year’s worth of memorable dishes I ate around New York. All come from places that did not make my list of 10 favorite restaurants: The world does not need cacio e pepe bagels or cacio e pepe breakfast cereal, but it probably does need the cacio e pepe…
I loved a lot of restaurants in 2022. Here are some where a normal person can eat an astoundingly good meal for about $10. An abnormal person, by which I mean anyone who orders the way I do, might spent twice as much. It will be worth it. Sanmiwago Taiwan Dumpling House As you wander…
Headliner Ixta What was Daniel Boulud’s modern kitchen and bar, adorned with French copper cookware, now pays homage to Mexico, specifically Tulum, the popular Yucatán destination. (Tulum is big this week; see below.) An elaborately decorated fantasyland with 165 seats, Ixta is the restaurateur Mike Himani’s largest undertaking to date. He and his partners say…
Few things delight quite like sitting down on the couch with a newly purchased cookbook, giving the spine a good crack and thumbing through those glossy, yet-to-be-sauce-splattered pages. But when hundreds of cookbooks publish every year, the opportunities for culinary wonder can feel endless. Where does one begin? At The New York Times Food desk,…
Known for his signature flat-cap and gameshow-host smile, Mr. Ani deserves a lot of the credit, from his Chinese-influenced Shanghai Me to Gaia, his modern Greek taverna, which placed 10th on the new Top 50 list. On a balmy Friday night, a crowd of social media influencers, expats, Emirati men in white dishdashas, and women…