It’s a real conundrum, and I don’t think it has to do with the general size of the American appetite compared with the British one. Jess tested this minestrone right before the holiday season, when eyes are normally much bigger than tummies. Waiting for certain festive foods to arrive — in my world, matzo balls,…
This is Day 3 of Well’s Mediterranean Diet Week. Start at the beginning here. If I had to choose just one food to always have on hand, it probably would be lentils. They’re quick to cook and comforting; my mom’s lentil soup was a staple of my childhood. But I’d also take any of the…
In 2014, when I had my first meal at the Simone, you could have described it as slightly behind the times. The pace was languid. The menus were handwritten. The chef, Chip Smith, molded regional American flavors over a frame of French technique. The dining room, on the ground floor of an Upper East Side…
When the chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph was opening Canje in Austin, Texas, in 2021, he did something he had yet to do as a restaurant owner: He decided to tell his own story. Namely, the story of growing up in Georgetown, Guyana, a South American country with deep ties to the Caribbean through food and culture.…
Headliner Weill Café Yes, we know, you get to Carnegie Hall with “practice, practice.” And once you get there, starting Saturday for dinner and Monday for breakfast, lunch and coffee, you can have something to eat. On Monday, the new Weill Café, occupying the stately, cream-colored room, recently renovated with gold and burgundy accents, that…
Hello! Mia here, the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking, filling in for Emily. I hope everyone is enjoying a happy and healthy new year. I am a grown woman who enjoys eating her vegetables. I say this not as a terrifically awkward introduction, but as a reminder to myself. When it’s cold and…
One day about 60 years ago, the comedian Bert Lahr put on a devil suit, held up a potato chip and uttered a phrase that would become a food-marketing milestone: “Betcha can’t eat just one.” Positioning food as deliciously addictive, as Lay’s did in its sly TV commercial, became advertising gold. In the decades that…
This is Day 2 of Well’s Mediterranean Diet Week. To start at the beginning, click here. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know: Fruits and vegetables are nutritional superstars, packed with essential vitamins and minerals, as well as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory compounds and gut-healthy fiber. Such nutritional riches may explain why people who regularly…
Is it me, or is a clear sky bluer in winter than in summer? Maybe it’s because, on my daily jaunts in the park, everything else is muted with little or no greenery or blossoms to compete with, so the blue always seems ready to burst between the bare branches. In daylight-starved January, I also…
A demonstration last week involving butchering half an heirloom pig, and showing how to use various parts, kicked off a series in the basement workshop and bakery at Leland Eating and Drinking House in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. It was followed by a five-course tasting dinner in the wine cellar, starring pork. The restaurant, which does…