No doubt, by now you have the menu planned for Easter and have bought what you need. If not, here’s a popular Gallic choice: gigot d’agneau, leg of lamb. It’s a firmly established French tradition, and there is rarely much deviation. But, to mangle the title of a nearly 100-year-old song, 50 million French carnivores…
I never got to know matzo lasagna when I was a kid, but I would have been supremely happy for an introduction. After the Passover Seder, the only thing we did with the leftover matzo (which is eaten during the holiday to commemorate the unleavened bread baked by the Jews as they fled slavery in…
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Taylor Knapp is a snail farmer. In fact, he is the snail farmer — at least the only one certified by the United States Department of Agriculture. The certification is crucial, he said. “Otherwise you’re just kind of a…
The chicken comes off the grill with a shine. Its skin is stained in late-breaking shades of sunset and mottled with char, little blithe grace notes everywhere. The rest of the menu at Chicks Isan, a Thai street-food stall at the underground DeKalb Market Hall in Downtown Brooklyn, is almost entirely devoted to pork. But…
The Languedoc region has regularly been described as the New World of France. It’s a sound analogy. For wine, the Old World is considered a place of intricate rules, intended to preserve traditional styles and combat fraudulent use of appellation names. But it can also be a place where rigid bureaucracies stifle all creativity. The…
Good morning. We’re 11 days out from Easter, and if you haven’t ordered a ham yet, it’s because either you’re running late or you’re not celebrating and either way I’m asking for hot takes: Where do you stand on spiral-cut ham? Bring your answer to the comments section attached to Kim Severson’s exhaustive and funny…
MELBOURNE, Australia — When vegan activists halted morning traffic on Monday at one of Australia’s busiest intersections, Prime Minister Scott Morrison described their actions as “un-Australian.” The traffic disruption in Melbourne was part of a “Day of Action” protesting the consumption of animal products, during which activists also chained themselves to machinery at an abattoir…
On a drizzly night in Paris, a crowd spilled out the door of Bouillon Julien and onto the slick sidewalk lining the rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis. The lure was a bargain-priced meal that promised to be surprising for both its quality and reasonable price: less than 20 euros, or about $23, for a three-course dinner…
When I’m craving a lunch that’s special but not fancy, or when lunchtime catches me by surprise, I head to the tiny restaurant Standard Fare in Berkeley. Run by Kelsie Kerr, one of the chefs at Chez Panisse who taught me to cook, Standard Fare is mostly kitchen; at lunchtime, customers turn the wide sidewalk…
Welcome to The Edit newsletter. Each week you’ll hear from college students and recent graduates about issues going on in their lives. You also may hear from me, Lindsey Underwood, editor of the newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Before January, I hadn’t had a Krispy Kreme doughnut or Chick-fil-A nuggets…