Erica Heller, the daughter of the novelist Joseph Heller (“Catch-22”), describes an imagined lunch at the original Union Square Cafe with her dad, in “One Last Lunch.” It’s the first of 50 fairly brief chapters about final meals, invented by writers and others, with people they loved. So you also have Daniel Bellow with his…
Janet Mavec, who once had a store on Madison Avenue, makes jewelry that she sells online. Most of the pieces, including necklaces, pendants, charms, bracelets, pins and earrings, are inspired by what’s on her farm in Pottersville, N.J. The items are made from 18-karat gold plate over brass and range in price from $30 to…
For a quick, satisfying summer refreshment, all you need is a can of fruit, a food processor and a freezer. This method was the brainchild of Melanie Bernard, a columnist for Bon Appétit magazine who in 1996 was commissioned by the Steel Packaging Council, a trade group, to find some new uses for canned food.…
I’ve been waking up very early lately. And sometimes, in those anxious predawn hours, I get an overwhelming desire to creep quietly into the kitchen and bake. This week, I craved chewy, salty butterscotch brownies, the kind made with browned butter, and almost enough dark brown sugar to make your teeth ache. But not quite.…
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Instead of my usual introduction, I want to direct you to a letter that Sam Sifton sent out today about NYT Cooking and our values. I hope you’ll take a moment to read it. Please take care of yourself and others. If that includes cooking, then I hope…
Maybe it was something in Odessa McAtee’s dressing that led her son to a career in cooking. “He loved my dressing,” she said, speaking over the phone Thursday from her home in Louisville, Ky. “‘Mama, make me some dressing,’” she recalled his asking all the time. Her turkey dressing and collard greens were his favorites.…
Good day. Seek the truth and help people understand the world. That’s the mission of The New York Times. It holds true for NYT Cooking as well, where we look at everything through the prism of home cooking and write up our findings as recipes. And here is a truth now: The protests that have…
This might be a controversial position in the world of desserts, but I think berries and whipped cream go better with a nice, crisp cookie than with the soft biscuits of a classic New England strawberry shortcake. I adore biscuits, but, to my mind, they’re bread, not cake, and best eaten for breakfast, not dessert.…
For Emily Roll, a performance artist in southeast Michigan, the beginning of 2020 offered a glimpse of hope for an anorexia recovery that was a long time coming. After 15 years of struggling with an eating disorder, Mx. Roll began seeing a nutritionist and therapist. They were spending each day busy on their feet: doing…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Hecky Powell had a deal with one of his longtime employees, a woman who had struggled with a drug habit. Every time she attended a rehab meeting, he paid her $15. If she worked a…