This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Salsa musicians had a post-gig ritual in the Bronx. When the music stopped, off they’d go to Joe’s Place, a Puerto Rican restaurant, where the owner and chef José Torres would lay out a free…
NAIROBI, Kenya — In the largest slum in Kenya’s capital, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead. In India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay.…
Whole chickens and boneless pork butts might be hard to get at the moment, but there seems to be ground meat aplenty, at least on my last market run. I stocked up, and am now reaping the meatball-shaped rewards. One benefit to making meatballs is that you can use just about any meat. The same…
Like so many home cooks in quarantine, after I’ve used up the green tops of my scallions, I drop the white, hairy roots into a glass of water to regenerate, feeling pleased with my own sense of thrift and pragmatism. But last week, after the Chinese internet star Li Ziqi posted a new cooking video…
Good morning. Remember when there were handshakes and hugs, crowded delis at lunchtime, crowded elevators at the mall, crowded rest stops on the interstates, close-quartered Elmos in the Elmo pens of Times Square? That was back in the before times, when you could do things like pop out for the turmeric you forgot to buy…
My wife and I, both restaurant chefs who have abruptly lost our jobs, have been living for more than a month soberly and devoutly conserving our resources. You could mistake us for back-to-the-land homesteaders. I gave her a haircut, and she sprouted the scallions on the windowsill. I’ve learned to make the cottony Kaiser rolls…
There are days lately when Renato Poliafito feels he is reliving a familiar old nightmare. In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy drove the evening high tide onshore, Mr. Poliafito was an owner of a small bakery called Baked, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Bay water ran through the neighborhood’s low-lying streets and into the basement of Baked,…
What this summer will be like, with the possibility of sitting — maybe six feet apart — on a boardwalk overlooking the ocean, remains to be seen. But, in the meantime, you can arrange for lobster rolls at home for a dinner or weekend treat for that summer-by-the-sea feeling. Here is a selection of New…
WARSAW — The Polish milk bar is remarkably well suited to the coronavirus lockdown. At these traditional restaurants, diners can pick up orders of ready-made pierogi or get home delivery of the familiar comfort of a barszcz beet soup and stuffed cabbage, to warm in the oven. Much of the menu comes at spectacularly low…
One month ago, to meet the last payroll before the pandemic shut their restaurant, the three owners of Coogan’s in Upper Manhattan got a beverage supplier to take back cases and kegs of beer. Their insurance company would not budge on the quarterly premium, charging the same price to cover the risk of an empty…