How to Travel With Food Allergies
Here are a few things to consider for your next trip.
Why Is Saffron So Expensive and How to Stretch Out Its Flavors
In the Iranian kitchen, the dizzying aroma of sweet saffron mingled with the warm, nutty scent of perfectly steamed rice is a time-honored call to the table. Even though it is known as the world’s most expensive spice, saffron is ubiquitous in Persian cuisine and infuses a wide array of dishes with soul. We can…
Climate Change at Two California Vineyards
Twenty miles to the west, another idealistic estate, Tablas Creek Vineyard, has had a very different experience. Like AmByth, Tablas farms biodynamically. In 2020, it became the country’s first vineyard to receive a regenerative organic certification, which requires meeting standards in encouraging soil health, and in promoting animal welfare and farmworker fairness. It’s far bigger…
What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong
Everyone knows conventional wisdom about metabolism: People put pounds on year after year from their 20s onward because their metabolisms slow down, especially around middle age. Women have slower metabolisms than men. That’s why they have a harder time controlling their weight. Menopause only makes things worse, slowing women’s metabolisms even more. All wrong, according…
3 Vegetarian Recipes That Changed My Cooking
A few weeks ago, a friend sent me the cutest photo of her sweet, pudgy-cheeked baby eating a bit of kale-sauce pasta. The baby was in a high chair, grinning before the wreckage of her dinner — green sauce on her face and hands, bits of pasta up to her elbows. Now that baby knows…
This Fast Dinner Celebrates Peak Summer Flavors
For me, peak summer is that joyful moment when the tomatoes and corn are ready at the same time, and there’s enough of each to go absolutely nuts. Earlier in the season, I hold back. The first truly ripe tomatoes need nothing more than salt, some torn basil or mint, and a gloss of the…
Your $4.39 Latte From the Local Roaster Could Soon Cost More
Coffee roasters have a problem. The cost of the beans that they import has soared this year, leaving roasters anguishing over whether their customers, from grocery stores to cafes to people looking for their daily latte, will tolerate higher prices. Extreme weather has damaged crops in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee exporter. On top of…
Focaccia Recipes to Cook Right Now
Good morning. Who knows where the desire to cook this dish or that one comes from, what triggers a synapse to fire? I watched a brief video clip of a friend dimpling some focaccia the other day, sun-gold olive oil over a pillowy cloud of dough, and suddenly that was all I wanted to make…
13 Vegetarian Recipes That Give Pasta and Beans a Break
Dried pasta and canned beans are vegetarian pantry staples for a reason: They are often the backbone of quick, tasty and satisfying meatless cooking. But if the sight of another box of rigatoni makes your eye twitch, or the thought of strolling down an aisle of cannellini beans triggers your fight-or-flight response, maybe it’s time…
Let Them Eat Fakes
WHAT DO YOU FEED A KING, dulled to every luxury beyond want? In the city-state of Venice in 1574, the young Henry III, then king of Poland and en route to becoming king of France, was welcomed with a banquet, just another in the hundreds of his life. But when he reached for his napkin,…