The first time I made cookies on my own (peanut butter, at age 8), I knew I wanted to keep baking. I just had to figure out how. Neither of my parents baked, so we didn’t have a mixer or cookbooks or cake pans. My only guide was one of my favorite aunts — everyone’s…
FoodxFilm Festival is a new global, virtual festival of food-related documentary films and series, mostly full-length, that examine social issues, agriculture, the environment, the sea and the future of food. It starts on Sunday and continues on Oct. 2 and 3. Among the films are “The Taste of Desire,” a global look at oysters; “When…
De Gustibus, the cooking school with classes led by chefs, has been at it successfully for more than 40 years. For the past pandemic year their virtual sessions have been popular that even now that the school is returning to in-person instruction in its kitchen at Macy’s Herald Square, the company is offering a remote…
As cider makers continue to hone their craft, food-friendly options have increased exponentially. Poured into stemware, the golden drinks shine at dinner; they are less filling than beer and lower in alcohol than wine. One way to explore a variety of ciders is with the new Cider Society subscription packages, offered quarterly, from Virtue Cider…
Café Sabarsky in the Neue Galerie is offering food to take away for the first time. Meal kits serving two offer specialties from Austria, Hungary and Germany, like chicken paprikash and beef goulash, both with spätzle ($58 each); and roasted bratwurst with sauerkraut and potatoes, and Bavarian sausage with a pretzel ($36 each). There’s also…
I fell in love with Maman, a cafe and bakery dressed in toile de Jouy, from the minute it opened on the edge of SoHo in 2014. And when the cookbook by the owners Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte, written with Lauren Salkeld, crossed my desk I decided that if it had the nutty chocolate…
Glen Lee, an actor and inventor with a passion for cooking Chinese food, decided to try to make his home stove behave like a restaurant wok stove, with extra high heat concentrated at the base of a traditional round-bottom steel wok. He succeeded after many years and finally introduced the two-part gadget for gas stoves…
For Ms. Cohen, it was an effort not only to challenge the very concept of tipping, which she called “inherently racist and sexist,” but also to attract and keep workers. “Everyone is making it seem like the difficulties finding staff is a post-pandemic issue,” she said. “But it was real before the pandemic, too, especially…
Good morning. I was on a boat coming out of a marina in Brooklyn, idling along through Mill Basin along Four Sparrow Marsh, when a flock of black-crowned night herons took off from its perch on a ruined dock and flapped off silently toward the Belt Parkway. It was thrilling: birds being normal in a…
LONDON — Michael Caine has been a regular at the River Cafe for decades, dining with his family, usually on a Wednesday or Thursday, and always at Table 4, the most coveted seat in this celebrated Italian restaurant in Hammersmith. So, when Ruth Rogers, the River Cafe’s American-born proprietor, set about creating a new podcast…