Good morning. Pete Wells has a fine reverie in The Times today about restaurants and our memories of them, of particular dishes at particular times at particular tables or seats at the bar. It’s an essay to accompany a collection of recipes and stories we’ve gathered from restaurants across the United States, recipes, he writes,…
Gourmet used to run a recipe-request column called You Asked For It. It was everybody’s favorite part of the magazine. Everybody, that is, except Gourmet’s test-kitchen cooks, who drove themselves crazy getting the recipes into a form that people at home could follow. In Gourmet’s early years, the 1940s and ’50s, what readers asked for…
Most canned cocktails are not for me. But the line of carbonated ones now sold nationally by Rogue Ales & Spirits in Newport, Ore., are an exception. They’re blissfully straightforward mixtures of very few ingredients, plus sparkling water. The spirits are Rogue’s own Bayfront Vodka and Farmhouse Gin. The Ginger Lime Vodka Mule and the…
Until Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo decides that it’s safe enough for New York City’s restaurants to start indoor table service, many have pivoted to offer food for take out and sometimes delivery. And at Rahi in the West Village and Adda Indian Canteen in Long Island City, Queens, a bonus comes with the Lucknow biryani…
Ivy Mix, an owner of Leyenda, a bar in Brooklyn, has put the focus on tequila, rum and pisco in her useful new book, “Spirits of Latin America.” Agave, sugar cane and grapes: Each one has its own chapter, giving the history, production methods and cultural influences of tequila (and mezcal), rum (and cachaça) and…
The cookbook “Mixtape Potluck” by Questlove, the musician and activist, was published last fall. Now Questlove is turning it into a one-hour Food Network special and fund-raiser to be broadcast on Thursday, with celebrity participants like Olivia Wilde, George Lopez, Tiffany Haddish and others cooking, eating and drinking at a virtual dinner party. It benefits…
Alida Malushi, a pastry chef who was born in Kosovo to an Albanian family, came to New York in 1991. With her niece, Ariana, she established Balkan Bites, making and selling her family’s burek, the filled pastries that are widely enjoyed throughout the Balkans, in Turkey and parts of the Middle East. Though she is…
A free weekly online compendium of food news, DigestThis.news, started publishing last week. It’s an offshoot of Amazing Ribs, a website that’s about all things barbecue. David Joachim, a cookbook author who also writes for Amazing Ribs, is at the helm. The site covers topics like restaurants, health, regulations, science, cooking, new books and more…
Headliner North Fork Table Food Truck The reopening of North Fork Table & Inn, a highly regarded establishment on Long Island, began Memorial Day weekend with its popular food truck, now in its 10th season. Both closed last fall to cycle through a change of ownership. The chef John Fraser and his JF Restaurants now…
Good morning. One hundred and one years ago, the American ambassador to France, Hugh Wallace, invited President Woodrow Wilson to speak at a Memorial Day ceremony near Paris, to honor American doughboys killed during World War I. The president had been in France for months attending to the peace process and was in ill health,…