For nearly four years, Pooja Bavishi has been selling her Malai ice creams online and at pop-ups, with more than 20 flavors like orange fennel, Turkish coffee, rose with cinnamon almonds, masala chai, golden turmeric and ginger. She has just opened a small shop for scoops and pints where a dozen flavors will be on…
SAN DIEGO — The cooks at Tacos Fitos, just across the street from the Mercato Hidalgo shopping center in Tijuana, are guardians of a vat of birria. The goat meat shimmers with ancho- and guajillo-stained fat, and the scent of it calls to shoppers, among them Claudette Zepeda-Wilkins. Ms. Zepeda-Wilkins is the chef at El…
Quicke’s, a cheesemaker in Devon, in Southern England, specializes in Cheddar and Cheddar-style cheeses. It has just released a new one, the first it’s made from a mixture of cow and goat milk. It’s not called a Cheddar, though the curds are treated by Cheddaring; they are heated, drained, piled in the cheese vat and…
Fany Gerson, the Mexican confectioner best known for her paletas (frozen fruit pops), is having a Cronut moment. She is frying and filling hamantaschen-shaped doughnuts for Purim, which starts the evening of March 20. The feather-light yeast-raised doughnuts are triangular and come filled with strawberry or blueberry jams, lemon curd with poppy seeds or a…
This new whiskey — from a distillery in Central Ireland that’s said to be the oldest one continually operating — is a rarity. A century or more ago, rye was used in the mash for Irish whiskey, but it went out of fashion. Kilbeggan, founded in 1757, is now making a copper-still blend with 30…
Good morning. It’s Monday, and I hope you’ve got a full bottle of red wine at the ready. You’re going to need it to make dinner. That’s right, put on a big pot of salted water, because it’s red wine spaghetti night! (Are there four better consecutive food words than “red wine spaghetti night”? I…
Image CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times; Photos via Shutterstock and New York Public Library The hamburger is suddenly embroiled in a political dispute. Supporters of the Green New Deal, according to a Republican talking point, are anti-patty. “They want to take away your hamburgers,” Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to President Trump, said…
Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. I just want to take a moment to sing the praises of fried rice, which I made this week for the first time in years. It’s so easy and so completely hits the spot after a long day, the dinner equivalent of stretchy pants and Netflix. The recipe…
For this simple pasta, you’ll need two bottles of wine — one for making the dish, and the other to drink. Since it is a traditional Tuscan pasta, you could make it with Chianti or Brunello di Montalcino, but any medium-bodied dry red wine is suitable. It doesn’t have to be an expensive bottle, but…
Any kind of cake can be a snack, but not every cake is a snacking cake. Cupcakes, leftover birthday cake, even ice cream cake eaten straight from the freezer are all delightful at 3 p.m. But they do not qualify. Instead, picture a thick square of tender cake that you can eat with your hands.…