Scientists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40 percent. This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and…
Levain Bakery, the chain known for its big fat cookies and its breads, is opening a branch on the Upper East Side. Here, for the first time, it will be serving ice cream sandwiches. To make them, the usual six-ounce cookie ($4) is split in half, so the sandwich has a three-ounce cookie on each…
I don’t need to tell you this, but it’s extremely hot outside. It’s mid-July, and my apartment is a tiny sauna without any of the amenities that make a sauna good. I’d rather go swimming in the Gowanus Canal than stay at home braising a pot of short ribs. If you can relate and are…
Few things are as maddening or as elusive as trying to convey the character of a wine, both for the reader and the writer. Many wine authorities believe that a wine should be described as specifically as possible, breaking it down into a group of flavor and aroma components that, when all put together, describe…
Good morning. Cooking is sometimes about fantasy and today’s is that you’re going to bake black and white cookies (above) this evening, on a Monday night in the middle of July, when most people would sooner read old TV Guides at the laundromat than turn on the oven. It’s Melissa Clark who’s going to get…
Deep-fried tempura flakes, a key ingredient sprinkled on sushi rolls for crunch and known as agedama or tenkasu, Japanese for “heavenly waste,” have been linked to a series of restaurant fires in multiple states. Five of them occurred in Wisconsin, said Kara Nelson, a fire investigator in the capital, Madison, where two restaurants sustained more…
We love a warm-weather pasta dinner. Make Melissa Clark’s pasta with burst cherry tomatoes (above), one-pot pasta with ricotta and lemon, or fettuccine with zucchini. Click the collection below for more recipes.
The drink of summer 2019 complies with just about every diet, befits all age groups, can be found in grocery stores across the United States (as has been the case for decades) and won’t get you drunk — unless, of course, it will. It’s water. More specifically sparkling water, an umbrella term that encompasses club…
Here’s a game for the food-obsessed: Instead of contemplating which historical figures you’d invite to a dinner party, picture the dishes you’d serve for the meal. As in oysters Rockefeller followed by tournedos Rossini with a side of Caesar salad? Then for dessert, will it be a fruity peach Melba and vanilla ice cream drizzled…
We ask a lot of elotes, the Mexican corn covered in mayonnaise, cotija, chile powder and lime. They are the only common cob topping at cookouts beyond butter. (They’re also a great dish to bring up when someone foolishly says they hate mayo, because in elotes, this divisive condiment is both the key ingredient and…