The Museum of Food and Drink is offering a rich program of hourlong Zoom talks addressing cultural and political issues. First up is “Eating NAFTA: Food Justice, Policy, and the Cuisine of Mexico” on Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. Led by the author Alyshia Gálvez, with a panel of experts, the event will address how…
You think baking is demanding when it comes to precision? Try mixing a drink. Cocktail Kingdom, a company that sells everything you need for your bar but the booze, has introduced a set of six handsome stainless steel measuring spoons designed by the mixologist Jim Meehan. They go from a quarter-teaspoon to a tablespoon and…
To toast the Jewish New Year, 5780, the holiday that starts at sundown, Sept. 18, you can now pour some kosher single malt, made in Israel’s first whiskey distillery. Milk & Honey, or M&H Distillery, in Tel Aviv, makes a range of kosher malts with different finishes. Among them, the Elements Sherry Cask Single Malt,…
No need to save this delicious stunner for Rosh Hashana. Even though Breads Bakery has introduced it for the holiday, the Crown Medjool, a handsome ring of laminated croissant-style pastry filled with a creamy date purée, can be nibbled with morning coffee or served as an afternoon snack, or would make a grand entrance at…
Kenneth M. Horwitz is first an accountant and a lawyer. But for decades, his avocation has been cooking. “Deep Flavors,” his hefty new cookbook, is a compendium of his own recipes (sometimes adapted from others) all written for a kosher kitchen. He approaches the kitchen with the same attention to detail that he might apply…
KETURA, Israel — The plump, golden-brown dates hanging in a bunch just above the sandy soil were finally ready to pick. They had been slowly ripening in the desert heat for months. But the young tree on which they grew had a much more ancient history — sprouting from a 2,000-year-old seed retrieved from an…
ANTELIAS, Lebanon — The falafel shop owner leaned back and listed the keys to the Lebanese kitchen — the staples that help lend this country its culinary halo: Sesame seeds for the smoky-silky tahini sauce dolloped over falafel and fried fish — which are imported from Sudan. Fava beans for the classic breakfast stomach-filler known…
Julia Reed, an irreverent, expansive chronicler of politics, food and Southern life, died on Aug. 28 in Newport, R.I. She was 59. The cause was cancer, said the historian Jon Meacham, a family friend. She had been on vacation visiting friends. In reporting for Newsweek, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine and other publications, Ms.…
There may be nothing better than enjoying a summer meal at home: spending long lunches at long tables with thrown-together salads and lots of cold wine, grilling corn and hot dogs at sunset after a long day at the beach, gathering around a table to crack lobsters under the stars. Right now, many of us…
BOSSIER CITY, La. — In late August, Kuan Lim rolled his wheelchair up to a table set for 12 at Lucky Palace, the restaurant he operates inside a budget-priced motel in northwest Louisiana. Mr. Lim is battling cancer — he lost the bottom half of his right leg to the disease — and hadn’t been…