On Saturday night, we had dinner at my brother’s place, pulling up to his house at the end of a blazing hot day to find he had made a full taco night spread, a mirage shimmering just past the front door. These were not tacos in the “It was like I was at the market…
Potato salad has its charms, but you probably wouldn’t eat a whole plate of it. Rice salad, on the other hand, can make a fine summer meal. Popular throughout the Mediterranean, there are many types, and all are summery. Italians claim insalata di riso as their own. There are variations, of course. In the North,…
Good morning. Maangchi, the YouTube cooking star whose real name is Emily Kim, was on vacation on the far eastern end of Long Island this summer, staying in a condominium just steps from the Montauk beach. One day I went out to visit her, and she taught me to make cheese buldak (above), fiery chicken…
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Tacey Rychter, an audience editor and writer based in Sydney. ______ When news broke Wednesday that Margaret Fulton, the best-selling Australian cookbook author, died at 94, many people posted photos of…
Q. Does eating smoked fish, such as smoked salmon or whitefish, increase the risk of colorectal cancer or other cancers, the way processed and deli meats do? A. It might. From a cancer risk perspective, the American Institute for Cancer Research considers smoked and cured fish in the same category as processed meats. Though other…
Since Deb Perelman started Smitten Kitchen in 2006, the cooking site has spawned legions of fans, two popular cookbooks and a drool-inducing Instagram account, where it’s easy to lose an hour (or five) in images of gooey chocolate-chip cookies, herb-sprinkled pastas and juicy chicken roasted just so. But even as Smitten Kitchen has expanded well…
P. Rajagopal, who founded Saravana Bhavan, one of the largest South Indian vegetarian restaurant chains in the world, died on July 18 in Chennai, India, as he was facing life in prison in the murder of a man over a woman’s affections. He was 71. His death, at Vijaya Health Center, was confirmed by the…
Do you have advice to manage PMS food cravings? — Dee [Have a question about women’s health? Ask Dr. Gunter yourself.] Short Take Food cravings can be experienced as part of PMS (premenstrual syndrome). There are no good studies specifically addressing food cravings, but aerobic exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, calcium supplementation, oral contraceptives, spironolactone and…
VILA SECA, Portugal — In the cellar of a modern, concrete winery in this small town in the Douro Valley, Luis Seabra was drawing a sample of his 2018 Xisto Cru Branco from the large old barrel in which it was aging. Even at such an early stage, this was a gorgeous white wine, made…
If you listen carefully, you can hear crackling inside the scorching-hot glazed casserole. It’s the sound of fan jiu, crispy rice, forming at the bottom of the clay pot, the vessel that this subterranean Cantonese restaurant in the East Village has taken as its name. When the pot arrives in front of you, straight from…