Just in time for longer evenings, bodega flowers and all the green vegetables: My colleagues Tanya Sichynsky and Krysten Chambrot have a wonderful new interactive guide to spring entertaining, a choose-your-own-adventure for dinner-party planning. Tanya’s shindig swings fancy: shrimp cocktail, a glorious roast chicken with tangerines and an all-stops-pulled baked Alaska. Krysten keeps things cozy…
This weekend, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas across the country, temporarily renamed Alamo Dankhouse, are mixing Chex cereal, cheese balls and ranch seasoning with buttered popcorn. The snack is the first of three courses in a special menu that will be served during screenings of stoner classics like “Inherent Vice” and “The Beach Bum.” Ike’s Love &…
Truth or myth: Pasta should always be cooked al dente or firm to the tooth. The source of this myth seems to be transcontinental confusion. The American way of serving fully cooked pasta with sauce dolloped on top is different from the Italian way of serving pasta and sauce combined. In Italian recipes, the pasta…
All it took for the crookie to take shape was a baker looking for a diversion, his time-tested croissant recipe and a few cookies for inspiration. It took TikTok to make it go viral. Stéphane Louvard created the crookie almost a year and a half ago when he came up with the idea of putting…
What kind of gift could make a little girl cry tears of joy at her very pink birthday party? A puppy? A Stanley cup? A ticket to Disney World? In a 33-second video posted on TikTok earlier this month, the source of elation is a bright pink pack of buldak carbonara ramen. As of Friday,…
For months, the shelves of Carrefour, France’s biggest supermarket chain, have been dotted with bright orange signs placed in front of Pepsi bottles, Lays potato chips and a variety of other foods whose packages are suspiciously smaller than they used to be. “Shrinkflation,” the signs say. “This product has seen its volume decrease and the…
Eleven years ago, La Rifa Chocolatería in Mexico City introduced a dizzyingly dark, dense chocolate and cream tamal to its menu. Run through with the sultry flavors of caramel, butterscotch and molasses, the dish would quickly become one of its most popular to date. Of its carefully collected local ingredients (blue corn masa from Cal…
Good morning. Passover begins on Monday and, for those observing, Joan Nathan has given us her family recipe for brisket (above), which you could prepare on the day itself, but please don’t. It’s much better cooked this weekend and chilled in the refrigerator for a day or two so the flavors have time to set…
Something wasn’t quite right about the chicken soup. The team at Manischewitz had gathered in the test kitchen at the company’s headquarters in Bayonne, N.J., last year to taste the latest version of one of their new offerings. But it wasn’t hitting the notes they were aiming for. “We were tasting it against our grandparents’…
Something wasn’t quite right about the chicken soup. The team at Manischewitz had gathered in the test kitchen at the company’s headquarters in Bayonne, N.J., last year to taste the latest version of one of their new offerings. But it wasn’t hitting the notes they were aiming for. “We were tasting it against our grandparents’…