Anthony Martignetti, who found television immortality as a 12-year-old Italian immigrant when he sprinted through Boston’s North End in an enduring television commercial for Prince spaghetti, playing a boy who is beckoned by his mother’s cry, “Anthony! Anthony!,” died on Sunday at his home in West Roxbury, Mass. He was 63. His older brother Andy…
Welcome. One of the conversations I find myself having frequently with loved ones in recent months is about how we experience time passing. Is it plodding, each month seeming, since March, to contain twice as many days? Or is it careening by, a windblown mess of calendar pages left in its dust? It’s a luxury,…
Even during this socially restrained pandemic, there are still likely to be times when you’ll want to bake an enormous batch of cookies quickly — whether it’s for sharing with others, or for your own future bingeing. Sheet-pan sugar cookies are here for you. The dough is pretty much like any other sugar cookie, heavy…
Hello, NYT cooks! I’m taking over this newsletter from Tejal Rao, and somehow we will get through the last gasp of summer together. (Sam Sifton will return after Labor Day.) And what a summer it has been: waiting on a 40-yard-long line for farmstand tomatoes, staying locked inside my car during a drive-in showing of…
There was always a little static while trying to bring my lo-fi home cooking into a restaurant setting, producing it at restaurant speed and volume, pace and temperature, and getting it back on the plate in such a way that would still remind you of good home cooking. In spite of its stainless-steel countertops and…
The James Beard Foundation’s declaration last week that it would not announce the winners of this year’s major restaurant and chef awards startled Blake Spalding and Jen Castle, the two chefs who own Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm in Boulder, Utah. The week before, Ms. Spalding and Ms. Castle had taped a short video at…
McDonald’s said on Tuesday that its investigation into misconduct claims within the company now included whether its former chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, may have covered up inappropriate actions by other executives during his tenure. The company also said it was examining the actions of its human resources department. “The board will follow the facts wherever…
Headliner Nice Day The chef Lucas Sin, a 27-year-old Hong Kong native, is in charge of the kitchen at this restaurant in Greenwich Village. Nice Day evolved from a location of Junzi, a group of stylish fast-casual Northern Chinese restaurants developed at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. The group opened its first restaurant in New Haven…
In parts of the Upper Midwest, the phrase “pizza farm” is as evocative of summer food as “juneberry pie,” “butter cow” and “rutabaga festival.” (The 88th annual celebration begins Saturday in Cumberland, Wis.) Trace the route of the Mississippi River down from Minneapolis and along the Wisconsin-Iowa border. In the last two decades, dozens of…
When the British government told people they no longer had to stay home, it needed a convincing pitch to get everyone back outside and, crucially, spending money. The answer: half-price food. For the month of August, the government has been paying for a 50 percent discount on all meals eaten in restaurants, pubs or cafes,…