Good morning. It’s a great newspaper section we printed last night, rolled into blue bags and delivered to the vicinity of our subscribers’ front doors this morning. I loved Kim Severson’s profile of the Gullah Geechee cook Emily Meggett, a woman who’s never used a cookbook in her life and just published her first, “Gullah…
These are not marginal rituals. When, at weekly Mass, many of the world’s more than 1.3 billion Catholics, about a sixth of the global population, eat a wafer of bread that has become the body of Christ — not in symbol but physical fact, through the mystery of transubstantiation — they are literally bringing God…
The Obama Presidential Center, opening on the South Side of Chicago in 2025, has announced plans for a fruit and vegetable garden, a nod to the former first lady Michelle Obama’s focus on healthy eating. But its name honors another “trailblazer and humanitarian” who amplified “her husband’s agenda,” Eleanor Roosevelt, said Valerie Jarrett, the chief…
Only two witnesses testified during the trial, both for the prosecution. Ms. Tene, 32, who works in the software industry, spent most of the first day on the stand, describing her encounter with Mr. Batali late one evening at Towne Stove and Spirits, a bar in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston that has since…
It’s reader questions time again! This month I’m responding to emails that may at first seem specific to their senders, but will surely apply to a good share of Where to Eat readers, including where to take a crew with lots of dietary restrictions and how to introduce a 10-year-old to the world of New…
Headliner Ana Bar & Eatery A crowd-pleasing self-service buffet of hot and cold dishes, with an emphasis on vegetable preparations to eat in or take away, is the centerpiece for this casual new dining area on the second level of the Hudson Yards Shops building. Replacing the Citarella market, it sells mostly prepared foods and…
People who believe that the ideal side dish with fried potatoes is more fried potatoes can order the vada pao, with oblong potato chips wearing a cloak of batter that fits them like a puffy down jacket. There is, too, a small pile of thumb-size eggplant pakora. If you prefer your vegetables on the end…
The Mexico City Restaurant Serving a Taste of Home In an age obsessed with the elusive notion of authenticity, restaurants love to say that their menus reflect the spirit of their owners’ own kitchens, a comforting, if often disingenuous, claim. But at Mexico City’s six-month-old Esquina Común — which translates from the Spanish to “common…
The woman who has accused the celebrity chef Mario Batali of groping her at a Boston bar in April 2017 spent several contentious hours testifying on Monday, the opening day of his criminal trial on charges of indecent battery and assault. The woman, Natalie Tene, 32, who has also filed a lawsuit based on the…
It can be difficult to get Quentin Compson — my 10-year-old, wire-haired rescue dog — to rise from her bed. But one guaranteed way is to boil an egg. The second I break open that shell, I know that I can look down at my feet and see her standing right there, tail wagging, waiting…