The best muffins are the ones that veer into cupcake territory. Buttery, rich and occasionally glazed or iced, a muffin is intended to make eating cake acceptable for breakfast. These crumb cake muffins do just that. With their sour cream-laden batter, they’re about as tender and moist as cake gets. And the nubby blanket of…
After a year that so often kept people apart, the events staff at The New York Times wanted to take a moment to celebrate the occasions that brought us together. In 2020, Times journalists hosted nearly 160 virtual events to help us cope, make sense of a world turned upside down and live our best…
By Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiff It is an unquestionably difficult time for the hospitality industry. Every day, another restaurant shutters, one more bar pulls its steel gate down for good. Since its invention, one kind of watering hole has seen America through its most grueling times: the tiki bar. Decorated with bamboo and beach-y…
There’s a way to plates of crispy bacon and sunny-side-up eggs that doesn’t demand you stand over a hot skillet and get greasy. “Frying” bacon in a hot oven, then cooking eggs on the same sheet pan, turns out a meal for four in 15 minutes and requires almost no attention. Yes, the method is…
Good morning. Melissa Clark has a lament in The Times this week. It’s about missing the holiday parties we can’t have this year on account of the pandemic. “There’ll be no sipping eggnog in red lipstick and spangles,” she wrote, “no parking myself in front of platters of Camembert and Stilton, not even any sleeves…
Everybody’s talking about going green these days… People are “greening up” their homes, cars, skincare routines, and even their cleaning methods. But one area that people are getting more accepting of is “greening up” their bodies. If you’re like most people, you probably don’t eat the recommended amount of green vegetables per day. According to…
Headliner Burgie’s by Roberta’s At first glance, it would be hard to equate Roberta’s, a friendly, comfortable, eclectic place with its geometrically designed cousin, this new burger spot nearby. But that’s because the space was handed to Brandon Hoy and Carlo Mirarchi, owners in Roberta’s, largely finished. It’s in a warehouse development with retail and…
To understand how deeply tamal culture runs through California, you have to know why Enrique Zaragoza and his cellmates collected bags of Chili Cheese Fritos from the Centinela State Prison commissary. Crushed into a soft, umami-rich powder, then hydrated to form a grainy mash, the chips stood in for masa. Using a piece of plastic,…
Predicting food trends is a dubious exercise in any year, but those who dabble in the dark art of culinary prognostication have never faced a landscape harder to read than 2021. Most forecasters agree that the pandemic and the stumbling economy will not deliver a year of frivolous food or “breakout” cuisines. There will be…
A new film about this year’s restaurant crisis, “Restaurant Hustle 2020: All on the Line,” will have its premiere on the Food Network on Sunday. The film was produced and directed by Guy Fieri, who also narrates, and Frank Matson. It follows four chefs as they struggle with the shock of having to close, then…