Rent Here and Eat Well

When Frankie Celenza is home, hungry and doesn’t feel like cooking, relief can be found an elevator and an escalator ride away. A faster-than-Grubhub trip lands him inside DeKalb Market Hall, a mix of sandwich shops and noodle joints that’s essentially in the basement of City Tower, Mr. Celenza’s Downtown Brooklyn rental building. Yes, it…

My New Favorite Herb

Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, recipes for busy people who still want something good to eat. I have a tendency to go wild with herbs when I’m cooking, tossing them with abandon into salads and over vegetables, pasta and meat. My latest love is dill, fresh and feathery, thanks to the writer Naz…

Custard Sheds a Few Layers

Lady Macbeth used spiked possets to drug the royal bodyguards so her husband could murder the king. That was the only thing I knew about possets until Diana Henry showed me that they had far kinder uses. Historically a milk-based libation fortified with ale or wine, these days the word “posset” more likely refers to…

Lentil Salad Saves the Picnic

I love to eat outside whenever possible, even on a sunny winter day. But when warm summer weather hits, outdoor dining is a definite preference, whether it’s a formal sit-down dinner or a casual picnic. A picnic can take many forms. Sometimes, it’s setting places at a table in the backyard, but it can also…

Zen and the Art of Australian Winemaking

MARGARET RIVER, Australia — On a warm, sunny day in February, Will Berliner, the proprietor of Cloudburst, crouched and scuttled under the bird netting that had been draped over the vines in his small vineyard just two miles from the Indian Ocean here in Western Australia. I followed, ignoring my aching muscles and sore feet.…