Q. Is there a medical basis for the “sugar high,” which some parents claim their children get after eating sugar? A. The theory of the “sugar high” has been debunked, yet the myth persists. The notion that sugar might make children behave badly first appeared in the medical literature in 1922. But the idea did…
While the jewelry designer Anna Sheffield was growing up in Albuquerque, N.M., in the 1980s, dinner was always a sensitive time, in part because she considered hunting and fishing to be murder. Even her home state’s signature delicacy, green chile stew, typically came filled with beef or pork. After she went vegetarian at 16, she endured…
“Bottomless brunch” has never been an institution that promised particularly inspired food. For many, the phrase inspires fear rather than an appetite. But at Noods n’ Chill, a Thai restaurant that opened in December in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the bottomless vessel in question is not a pitcher of booze but rather a generous caldron of khao…
Good morning. Julia Moskin was in London recently, to speak with Fergus Henderson and his wife, Margot Henderson, celebrated British chefs and restaurateurs who have done a huge amount over the last 25 years to reinvent (some might say invent!) a particular kind of British cookery: minimalist, local and deeply seasonal. Julia’s article about the…
Before I had my restaurant I worked in catering, and I know there are a lot of bad things to say about catering — dry chicken and limp salad — but as a cook you get enormous exposure to a vast catalog of ingredients and cuisines. On a given workday, the staff might be preparing…
Headliner Thai Diner Thai meets American comfort food at the latest offering from Ann Redding and Matt Danzer, whose successful Thai restaurant Uncle Boons has a Michelin star. Thai influences season dishes like Thai tea French toast and an egg sandwich with Thai sausage. Lunch options include spicy chopped chicken livers, stuffed cabbage with chicken,…
The cover of this timely, political cookbook plays to my personal belief that baking is a release: Punch down that dough with force. The authors, Kathy Gunst, a cookbook writer, and Katherine Alford, a chef and writer, include views and recipes from more than 40 contributors, including Carla Hall, Genevieve Ko, Betty Fussell, Naomi Duguid…
Il Fiorista, the Mediterranean restaurant with a floral theme and a retail counter, is now selling condiments seasoned with flowers, spices and herbs. Among them are intriguingly scented sugars: coarse-textured orange blossom-vanilla, finer jasmine-honey and powdery clove maple. Your French toast will never be the same. They also sell butterfly pea flowers, a trendy cocktail…
For its new Keret Cake, Breads Bakery’s Proustian moment was a short story, “Crumb Cake,” by Etgar Keret, an award-winning Israeli author who wrote it for the bakery. The cake, a moist, slightly citrusy golden loaf topped with crumbs and bits of dried raspberry, was created by a Breads baker, with input from the writer.…
Among the beans sold by Fire Dept. Coffee in Rockford, Ill., a company founded by firefighters, are some infused with spirits, including bourbon, rum, tequila and Irish whiskey. The whiskey flavor is worth having on hand to make Irish coffee, the winter warmer soon to be in great demand. Though the whole beans smell of…