Deep, Dark Spaghetti all’Assassina

Good morning. Bari, Italy, the capital of Puglia, is on the Adriatic coast. My friend and colleague Steven Raichlen was there not long ago to look into one of the city’s most notable pasta dishes: spaghetti all’assassina (above). That translates as the spaghetti of an assassin, killer spaghetti: spicy, singed strands of deeply burnished pasta…

Hunting for the best duck in the city

Hi, I’m Pete Wells, restaurant critic for the Times and unarmed duck hunter. Each October, I get hungry for duck. There’s no good explanation for my timing. In some parts of the country, fall is when you pull on waders, whistle for the retrievers and crouch in a marsh waiting for mallards and teals to…

Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Rebrands

Anton Coleman, an avid fan of American whiskey with several hundred bottles in his collection, lives on the outskirts of Nashville, less than an hour’s drive from Lynchburg, the home of one of the distilling world’s most famous names, Jack Daniel’s. Yet until recently, not one of his bottles bore the distinctively filigreed Jack Daniel’s…