Tomato Time

Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, Labor Day Weekend Edition — though it’s more to the point to call it the Tomato Edition, so enamored am I of the fat tomatoes at the market. Given the choice, why eat anything else? (Aside from sweet corn. Eat that too.) Three of the five recipes below…

Carnivore Diet

Carnivore Diet: Everything You Need to Know

Heck yes, you’re interested in the carnivore diet. Let’s face it. Vegetables suck. You haven’t liked them since the first time your mom served you bland, microwaved broccoli. You’re tired of having to starve yourself and eat like a rabbit when you want to be healthy. Well, I’m here to tell you that you don’t…

Finding the Heart of Zinfandel

The comment from Preston G. of San Francisco seemed dismissive and definitive. Over the last month, as this column has been exploring zinfandels that were a step back from the popular over-the-top blockbuster style, he wrote: “Restrained is not authentic to the variety.” Here at Wine School, expressions of historical certainty about wine generally arouse…

Cook the Season’s Best

This is the week that we face the truth: The days are getting shorter, and the nights colder. (As I type this, I’m wearing a sweater for the first time since June.) In a normal year, tonight would mark the opening of the Columbia County Fair in Chatham, N.Y., held continuously since 1840 and attended…