Weeknight wines can be full of character. They can express a place, a vision and a culture just as fancy bottles left to age for years might do. Wines that can do this and still be inexpensive are great everyday wines. You will not find among this selection the great villages of Burgundy or Napa Valley.…
Up until this point, for centuries in fact, an oyster had been a difficult thing to love. It was a food for the brave, one who dared to venture into the tangled, oddly textured, vaguely sexual, bottom-feeding realm of mollusks. They had good months and bad months. They could make us sick. If we chanced…
While the pleasures of a good meal are gratifying, the real reason hospitals should offer better food is that nutrition is a pillar of good health, says Dr. David Eisenberg of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Eisenberg says the jury is no longer out on the benefits of eating a more…
The food scientists kept tweaking the pizza’s cheese, bread and sauce until they all had the same level of moisture and the same pH, so they would not interact and spoil. And to fight oxidation, the team added a small sachet of iron filings to the sealed pouch, which will bind any free oxygen. When…
Good morning. Julia Moskin wrote a long and captivating history of ranch dressing for The Times this week, and in it she made a fascinating point about the difference between what I’ll call farmers’-market cooking and the kind most of us need to practice more regularly, for reasons of geography or thrift. “Any home cook…
Video footage released Monday showed a performance like the one that launched Nusret Gokce to stardom. But within a matter of hours, Mr. Gokce, a celebrity chef better known as Salt Bae, had deleted the footage after Senator Marco Rubio denounced him on Twitter. The three Instagram videos, preserved by The Miami Herald, show Mr.…
Headliner For their latest project, Saint Julivert Fisherie, Alex Raij and her husband, Eder Montero, the chefs who own La Vara, El Quinto Pino and Txikito, zeroed in on seafood. “I always wanted to draw attention to fish,” Ms. Raij said. “I like cooking fish, and I also wanted to take it out of the…
By 1954, he and his wife, Gayle, had moved to California and bought a ramshackle property called Sweetwater Ranch, in the San Marcos Pass above Santa Barbara, Calif. They renamed it Hidden Valley, and opened it as a guest ranch. But according to their son, Nolan Henson, the place became even more popular as a…
“People always say summer is not a good time for sushi,” Derek Wilcox said. “I have no idea what they’re talking about.” Early evening, the end of August, and the granite TriBeCa sidewalks outside Shoji at 69 Leonard Street were deserted. The restaurant was empty, too. I sat alone on one side of the counter,…
Until it closes in November, the menu at Prime Meats will offer its greatest hits from over the years, such as the schnitzel and sausages. After that, a few of those dishes will live on, in the new Frankies menu. “You’ve got to have a steak, a real steak, at least one,” Mr. Castronovo said.…