When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in 1994, to join her. The dress acts as “a literal and…
Good morning. If there’s a better scent in the world than Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce (above), I’m unaware of it. Well, apart from fresh-baked apple pie, that is. And wooden boats, spit-roasted lamb, fresh-cut hay and Jamaican black cake. But Bolognese is pretty great: that milk-calmed tomato over a bass line of beef, with a…
Our affinity for sheet-pan dinners is downright Seussian. We like a sheet pan with salmon and potatoes. We like a sheet pan with feta and tomatoes. We like a sheet pan with chicken and bok choy. A sheet-pan bibimbap? That’s pure joy. Now Melissa Clark has a new recipe for sheet-pan turmeric chicken and crispy…
As winter set in this January, Sarah Kieffer recalled how it snowed for eight months last year in her hometown, Minneapolis. For weeks on end, the temperature dipped below minus 20. Surrounded by grayness, she baked blueberry muffins for the cheer of their bright pops of blue. “It’s like when the hobbits got to Mordor,…
Good morning. I made dinner for 50 last weekend, a giant feast of chicken bog, braised kale and rice, with cornbread and Henley Tuthill’s exceptional brown-butter Rice Krispies treats for dessert. I flew solo in the kitchen all day to bring it to fruition, doing the prep-cook shuffle: dicing vegetables, chicken and kielbasa, stirring roux,…
This is Day 5 of Well’s Mediterranean Diet Week. Start at the beginning here. The Mediterranean diet isn’t like other diets. To begin with, it’s more of a style of eating than a strict regimen. And adopting it doesn’t involve many of the sacrifices people associate with healthy eating. Compared with other wholesome diets, for…
Have you noticed how little “news” I break in this so-called newsletter? Practically none. Well, here’s some for a change: Nikita Richardson is coming back next week. Nikita, who started writing “Where to Eat: New York City” almost two years ago, has been working on another desk in the newsroom since August. I’ve been driving…
As a young woman growing up in the Chianti Classico town of Radda-in-Chianti in Tuscany, Angela Fronti was sure of one thing: She did not want to join her family’s business, doing agricultural work for wineries. She was far more interested in making wine herself, so she earned a degree in winemaking and found jobs…
There are plenty of things I’d rather not hear at the crack of dawn, and near the top of that list is the stilted voice of my smart speaker saying, “Right now in Brooklyn, it’s 17 degrees. Due to current wind conditions, it feels like 5 degrees.” As frigid temperatures sweep much of the United…
We’re at that point in January when we want to keep those cooking resolutions going strong (more vegetarian meals! More fish! More whole grains!), but we also want some comfort and coziness. The weather is getting colder, our socks are getting thicker, and we’re craving meals that feel like a warm hug. Something like this…