Don’t imagine that college partying resembles club partying (that we see in the movies) – they are not even close to each other! College partying equals cheap booze and bunch of ice on top, so don’t get your hopes up if you haven’t tried it before because you might remain disappointed. First rule of college…
LOS ANGELES — When Ricardo Ortega wants to convince someone of the unparalleled deliciousness of nixtamalized corn, he hands them a hot tortilla right off his clanking production line in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Late at night, as the ovens exhale the comforting smell of masa, a single, plain tortilla can be…
“Roasting a nice chicken for people is such a good way to say ‘I love you.’” I recently found this note to myself scrawled on the back of an electric bill I had probably forgotten to pay, written one night after a dinner party. There was most likely a lot of wine that night (the…
Good morning. It’s dark when I get up now and trudge toward the ferry, the scooter, the bus or the bicycle, and it’s dark again when I leave work for home. The season’s not quite right, but I long for caramelized citrus over yogurt after dinner, a reminder of summer or at any rate the…
THE LIGHTS ARE dim, set to eternal dusk. You enter and blink. If there are booths, they should be plush: Naugahyde or brocade limned in gold. Napkins are linen, tables likely cloaked. Maybe a Persian rug lies underfoot. Taxidermied animal heads peer from the walls. From your seat, you might see a living white-tailed deer…
This weekend, make Alison Roman’s vinegar chicken with crushed olive dressing (above) — our most popular recipe right now — Parmesan white bean soup, linguine with clam sauce or any of recipes in the collection below.
WASHINGTON — Night after night in Washington, you can find lobbyists and deep-pocketed donors plowing through chafing-dish chow at political fund-raisers held at the city’s hot spots, like James Beard-awarded outposts and waterfront behemoths. Filings with the Federal Election Commission, in which federal candidates report campaign financial activity, show what a big business it is.…
ImageThe designer Charlotte Perriand on the Chaise Longue Basculante B306 (1928-1929) by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, circa 1928.Credit© F.L.C./ ADAGP, Paris 2019 © AChP. Courtesy Fondation Louis Vuitton. For an Undersung Designer, an Overdue Retrospective Over a century after her birth, the French designer Charlotte Perriand is finally getting her due. A retrospective…
A surprising new study challenged decades of nutrition advice and gave consumers the green light to eat more red and processed meat. But what the study didn’t say is that its lead author has past research ties to the meat and food industry. The new report, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine,…
I have a short running list of cooking projects in my head, the things I would do if I were living the long-baked lifestyle as opposed to the fast-cook one. At the top of the list, alongside pastries, is sourdough bread — good bread being a true love of mine. This is why our new…