Welcome to Sandwich City

Good morning. Craig Claiborne put red bell pepper in his tuna salad sandwiches, and called for homemade mayonnaise to bind the ingredients. I do neither, preferring scallions, hot sauce and jarred mayonnaise of the sort called Hellmann’s east of the Rockies, and Best Foods to the west. You might add curry powder, or white balsamic…

The Most Delicious Chicken

Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. The Fourth of July, with its tantalizing promise of corn and watermelon, is somehow upon us. (Is time moving quickly? Slowly? It’s tough to tell!) There are two recipes below that would go nicely on the grill — though you could also cook them indoors if grilling isn’t…

Think of Kimchi as a Verb

In 1904, the Japanese military authorities arrested the American novelist Jack London. Three times. He was covering the Russo-Japanese War for the San Francisco Examiner as a war correspondent in Korea, and drew from his time overseas in a 1915 novel, “The Star Rover.” “I know kimchi,” London writes, speaking through his characters. “Kimchi is…