Fish Sauce Is Good for Just About Everything

The recipes are rarely stringent — if you can’t find hot mint, you can’t find hot mint! — and encourage adaptation and variation. Collected, they also trace the shift of fish sauce from Vietnamese kitchens into more American restaurant kitchens and home kitchens of all backgrounds over the last decade, particularly on the West Coast,…

A Cooks Tour: 3 Picture Books About Famous Foodies

SWEET JUSTICEGeorgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus BoycottBy Mara RockliffIllustrated by R. Gregory Christie ALICE WATERS COOKS UP A FOOD REVOLUTIONBy Diane StanleyIllustrated by Jessie Hartland BORN HUNGRYJulia Child Becomes “the French Chef”By Alex Prud’hommeIllustrated by Sarah Green Whether kids know it or not, the plate of food in front of them can be so…

The Best Veggie Burgers Recipes

When the latest round of meat analogues first hit the market, I was so excited to try them. But for me, a real, high-quality, well-seasoned veggie burger — that is to say, a homemade patty, built with a mix of beans, mushrooms, vegetables, grains or tofu — tends to be way more interesting, more satisfying…

The Best Veggie Burgers Recop

When the latest round of meat analogues first hit the market, I was so excited to try them. But for me, a real, high-quality, well-seasoned veggie burger — that is to say, a homemade patty, built with a mix of beans, mushrooms, vegetables, grains or tofu — tends to be way more interesting, more satisfying…

How To Choose The Best Wine Glass

For the last couple of months I’ve been drinking luxuriously. The bottles have been no different — they are the usual mix depending on regions, grapes and producers I’m curious about and articles I’m working on, with the occasional treat. But I’ve been pouring wine into five of the best wine glasses money can buy.…

Air Fry a Cheesecake

Good morning. Do you have an air fryer? Millions of Americans do and, as Christina Morales reports for The Times this week, the device may be supplanting the microwave and humble toaster oven as the nation’s favored countertop cooking device, this year’s electric pressure cooker or 12-button blender. “The air fryer,” one of the home…