Risotto is one solution to summer cooking, especially if you’re on holiday. You’re making do with a wonky stove top and a skillet. You want to cook, but not too much. And, of course, you want something delicious. It’s an easy meal and versatile; just add a green salad for an elegant vacation soiree. If…
Dean & DeLuca, the debt-ridden global chain of luxury food shops, has defaulted on federally mandated payments to former employees and stalled payments to current employees in the United States, according to accounts from employees and documents received by The New York Times. The parent company, Pace Development in Bangkok, did not respond to repeated…
For generations, the name Manischewitz was practically synonymous with kosher foods and wine. No Passover Seder seemed authentic without its square-shaped, ripple-faced matzo and a shot or more of the syrupy Concord grape wine that many find cloying yet nostalgic. And its slogan — “Man, oh Manischewitz” — was broadcast so ubiquitously throughout the years…
How did it get to be August? I’ve barely been to the beach, or had shaved ice! I haven’t even made Julia Moskin’s gazpacho recipe yet, which in the past two weeks has taken off among the vast and beautiful NYT Cooking audience (a phenomenon noted on the website Cup of Jo on Wednesday). How…
A well-seasoned coleslaw is an essential element to barbecue, though the slaw that shows up on your table depends on where you smoke and eat your meat. Dutch immigrants brought coleslaw to the New World in the 1700s, and the name stuck (from the Dutch words “kool” for “cabbage” and “sla” for “salad”). It became…
At least one million children and adults in the United States are allergic to sesame, an ingredient used in everything from hummus to snack bars, researchers reported on Friday. The finding indicates that sesame allergy is more prevalent than previously known, although still far less common than peanut allergy. But sesame is not among the…
There are three levels of heat in the spice rubs at Brooklyn Suya, starting with mild, which is in fact hot. Not too hot, just enough to open the pores and bring a faint sheen to the skin. It’s the next level up that slows you down, insists you take your time and pause every…
The owner of a new kosher steakhouse in Crown Heights wanted the mural painted over, according to the rumor. Sean Price, the mural’s subject, a local rapper who was known to his fans as “Ruck” and who made up half of the hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah, had died in 2015 from unknown causes. His lyrics…
Good morning. Gabrielle Hamilton has an elegant jewel box of a column in The New York Times Magazine this week, about cooking for loads of children at a sleepaway camp, and the joy of hiding out there in the woods making food for a crowd. To go with it, she gave us a recipe she…
In recent years, the alternatives to conventional cows’ milk have proliferated. The local grocery store is likely to offer any number of plant-based options: milks made from soy, almonds, oats, rice, hemp, coconuts, cashews, pea plants and more. But most nondairy milks pale in comparison to cows’ milk. Plant-based milks are made by breaking down…