1. Shrimp Creole Vallery Lomas’s spicy shrimp Creole, a southern Louisiana classic, is the type of stew that gives you weekend depth of flavor on a weeknight timetable. Keep a close eye on the roux as it cooks — as Vallery notes in the recipe headnote, a burned roux can’t be saved. 3. Kimchi Jjigae With…
MIAMI — When the Cuban socialite Elena Ruz Valdés-Fauli was in her early 20s, she would often go to a show or a movie and have a late-night bite with friends at the restaurant El Carmelo in Havana. Her usual meal was an off-menu request: a turkey sandwich on medianoche bread, with cream cheese and…
NEW ORLEANS — JoAnn Clevenger was certain she would reopen Upperline, her New Orleans Creole restaurant, for most of the 18 months since the Covid-19 pandemic forced its closing. That confidence began cracking this past summer, as she began, with the help of a therapist, to confront her fear of losing a business she regarded…
If Americans know one thing about wine, they know this: Napa Valley makes cabernet sauvignon. They know it so well that many Americans simply assume that all cabernet sauvignon comes from Napa Valley. Paul Draper, the longtime head of Ridge Vineyards, which makes Monte Bello, perhaps the greatest American cabernet, once joked to me that…
No, I don’t think it’s fear so much as unfamiliarity, as a few readers suggested, though admittedly, what separates these feelings can sometimes be a fine distinction. “Being new to Greek reds, I do find their names distractingly complicated,” said Shweta of Michigan. And, referring to a Greek grape, Bunk McNulty of Northampton, Mass., (a…
Eric’s gravy recipe also calls for basic vegetable stock, but before you start your Thanksgiving cooking, it’s worth remembering that there are so many vegetarian stocks you can use when you’re making gravies, stuffings and other dishes, too. Some quick veg stocks: Miso broth: It’s so simple to dissolve a spoonful of sweet and salty…
In 1960, the American-born oil tycoon J. Paul Getty purchased his dream vacation home in Italy. He could have opted for a palazzo in a bustling resort destination like Portofino or Capri but, perhaps unsurprisingly, given his obsession with ancient Rome — his collection of artifacts from the era included rare bronze statues and priceless…
Good morning. The Thanksgiving sharpies may be breathing easy — their plans for next week locked down and ingredients secured, pies and stock in the freezer, wines lined up on the windowsill — but I’m thinking today about those unused to cooking the feast. It’s intimidating, after all, to cook Thanksgiving, and especially to do…
When I started Thanksgiving at Prune 20 years ago, I put a version of the plate on the menu, and it had become a tradition of my own. When guests arrived, we would set one down on the table as we hung up their coats, and they read the wine list, had a cocktail, visited…
Headliner Caviar Russe and The Bar at Caviar Russe Tucked into a second floor overlooking Madison Avenue since 1997, the luxurious, intimate dining room at Caviar Russe, an importer and seller of caviar, now has a less formal partner downstairs. The company took over the ground-floor space and has turned it into a caviar bar…