I loved Yewande Komolafe’s most recent column about the foods she makes when the floorboards start to feel cold under her feet, and she wants to feel warm and nourished by the food she cooks. She calls this big family of broths, soups and teas her “restoratives” and builds them quickly, from simple ingredients. I’ve…
Good morning. It’s Groundhog Day, and, whether the rodent bites the mayor or flees its shadow, winter will continue until March 20, and tomorrow will dawn much like this one and much like the one that will follow. The director Harold Ramis understood this, as do many of us who’ve been weathering the pandemic from…
“I still have that HATE shirt in my closet to remind me,” Rinella told me. We were sitting in his backyard at the home he shares with his wife, Katie, and their three young children in an upscale neighborhood in Bozeman. The leaves on the aspen tree out front had gone riotously golden, and the…
Financiers are the plain Janes of the pastry world. Usually, they’re unglazed, unfrosted, undecorated in any way. And that’s the way they’re meant to be — simplicity was built into their DNA. The story goes that the pastry chef Lasne, who had a shop near the Paris stock exchange in the late 1800s, created these…
Headliner The Cohen Community Food Rescue Center For nearly 40 years, City Harvest has collected food that would otherwise go to waste from restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, farms and others to supply soup kitchens, food pantries and the like. Now, it has moved into a 150,000-square-foot headquarters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The organization had offices and…
NEW ORLEANS — Days before Hurricane Ida hit last August, Maxine and Lanny Martin bought 150 pounds of shrimp in Chauvin, the coastal Louisiana town where they live. The shrimp came from fishers along Bayou Petit Caillou, which runs a few blocks from the house where the Martins raised six children, including Melissa Martin, a…
SACRAMENTO — “Be right back,” Dusty Baker said on a chilly, recent Saturday morning at his home here. The veteran manager had made some final cuts earlier in the week and now it was time to pick up the pieces. When he returned, he did not have a lineup card in hand, nor was a…
He hecho dietas durante la mayor parte de mi vida y hace poco tomé la decisión de no volver a hacerlas. Cambiar de enfoque me ha resultado. Estos son ocho aprendizajes de una alimentación consciente.
Ucross, located on a ranch in northeast Wyoming, houses an artist residency program founded in 1983 and has provided inspiration to such figures as the poet and performer Karma Mayet Johnson, the journalist and novelist Suki Kim and the baritone Nathan Gunn, among many others. Their tenures at the ranch were punctuated by meals from…
Koji, a type of mold, has been used in Japan for centuries in the fermentation needed to produce soy sauce, miso and sake. It can also be used to ferment grain for whiskey, which is usually made with malted barley. Takamine, an exceptionally smooth koji-fermented whiskey from Shinozaki Brewery & Distillery in Japan, is now…