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…
Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli, who own two well-established Italian restaurants in Brooklyn and Manhattan, have been planning to open a slice shop since last September. This September, they say, the pizzeria will finally open in a space between Frankies 457 Spuntino and Franks Wine Bar on Court Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. They are…
The glory of wine today is its unparalleled diversity. Never before in history would you be confronted in a wine shop with the range of choices available now. Some may suggest this poses a problem: The endless options are too intimidating. But I think the selection offers a wonderful opportunity for exploration. It may be…
Sherry is among the most singular wines available today. Consider manzanilla, a type of fino sherry, which we have been examining in Wine School over the last month. While some wines may occasionally be reminiscent of manzanilla, none offers the combination of briny salinity, almondlike nuttiness and dried flower aromas and flavors that can snap…
The chef April Bloomfield is no longer involved in Tosca Cafe, the 100-year-old San Francisco landmark restaurant that she revived in 2013 with the restaurateur Ken Friedman, her former business partner. After abruptly closing on Saturday night, Ms. Bloomfield said in a statement that she expected the restaurant to reopen soon, but under “new management.”…
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. By Klancy Miller It took all of Georgia Gilmore’s willpower not to explode at the driver of the crowded bus in Montgomery, Ala., one Friday afternoon in October 1955. She had just boarded and dropped her…
Good morning. Our Ligaya Mishan has a beautiful article in The Times today about the Filipina food writer Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, who died in 2002 but whose work is right now inspiring a new generation of cooks and restaurateurs. “She revolutionized Filipino food,” Ligaya wrote, “simply by treating it as what it is: a cuisine.”…
The one and only summer I went to sleepaway camp, I bunked with these ferocious girls from Morris County, in New Jersey, who wore tubes of grape-scented Lip Smacker lip gloss on lanyards that hung from their necks and who hogged the bank of bathroom mirrors blow-drying their hair every afternoon before dinner. The one…
Friends in Rome had warned me: no one should eat pasta all’amatriciana nonstop for a week. The sauce — a glutton’s glorious punishment of pork, pecorino and tomatoes — produces one of the most satisfying dishes on the Roman table. But what’s the best way to make it? I planned to eat my way all…