A pastrami sandwich with a martini alongside is a good idea. Make them with pastrami from Katz’s Delicatessen and Hendrick’s Gin, and you can tie them together with a special edition of Katz’s pickles brined with the juniper berries, cubeb berries and coriander used in Hendrick’s, a gin famously infused with cucumber, the key pickle…
The annual Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival benefiting Gods Love We Deliver and the Food Bank for New York City returns to in-person events this year (with Covid protocols observed), Oct. 14 through 17. Among the scores of dinners, tastings, cooking demonstrations and wine events is a new…
Last year Zach and Minami Mangan, importers of tea from Japan, dipped their toes into the retail market with a Kettl stand in the tiny mall on the Bowery in NoHo. Its success has now led them to add a graciously serene store in a part of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that’s become a hub for food.…
It was a tweet heard round the internet. Two images, side by side: two regal blue Royal Dansk tins, filled with sugar-studded butter cookies slotted in white wrappers, next to an identical tin with a much less enticing assortment of buttons and thread. Written beneath the first image, “My fall plans.” Under the second, “The…
There was a time, just a couple of years ago, when I would invite two dozen strangers over to my apartment for dinner. Twice a month, I would cook and serve dishes like fish pepper soup, seasoned with up to 10 different spices; fork-tender goat, braised for hours in a fiery red obe ata; baobab…
Good morning. There are those who say you should never put cheese on shrimp, but they maybe have never tried the shrimp Parmigiana at Dan Tana’s in Los Angeles or the shrimp tacos at Toloache in New York, both of which are superb. They might wail at Eric Kim’s latest recipe for The Times, for…
Aubrey Gordon colecciona libros viejos de dietas. Ha acumulado casi 100 ejemplares, entre ellos el volumen de 1973 Slimming Down, escrito por el compañero de Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon. Este libro, que incluía capítulos como “La conspiración de los palitos de pan” y “Dos martinis en Connecticut”, fue con el que Gordon inició su colección.…
When I was in graduate school in Manhattan, my friend Bernard and I went to the opera without eating supper. Bernard and I had met at a fancy food market in SoHo where we both had part-time jobs behind the bread station. I was going to be a famous writer and he a famous set…
Caroline Young was thrilled to be hired two years ago as a host at Café Poêtes in Houston. She was pursuing an undergraduate degree in hospitality, so she thought the experience in fine dining would be invaluable. She wanted to be the first person to greet arriving diners. Initially, she said, most guests seemed glad…
Here at Five Weeknight Dishes we are always striving to give you delicious and interesting ideas for dinner that won’t take too much time to make — time you may hardly have in the first place. (You’re busy!) I’m talking about the recipes with the brilliant twist, the sharp shortcut, the technique that elevates something…