Of the 59 varieties of native corn in Mexico, nal t’eel is one of the oldest, having emerged in the Yucatán Peninsula some 4,000 years ago. It grows quickly, largely unbothered by heavy rains or drought — so robust that the Mayans called it “rooster corn.” Like almost all of Mexico’s indigenous corn varieties, nal…
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It may come as a shock to legions of chocolate chip devotees, but there’s a small but passionate faction of cookie lovers who prefer oatmeal raisin. It’s not that we just tolerate oatmeal raisin cookies, nor that we think of them as a dignified second best. It’s that we would, in fact, brush past a…
People often tell me they simply can’t cook without a recipe. But often you don’t really need one: You need a technique, a method. Though quantities are given, the three dishes in this menu don’t require strict adherence to a recipe. All that is needed is confidence and a sense of direction. Then you can…
Is there anything cuter or more fun to eat than a meatball? Snuggled into a sandwich, slid onto skewers or perched on top of spaghetti, meatballs are inherently playful — more than their close cousin meatloaf, which is far too square to roll off the table and out of the door. Thankfully, such a fate…
In a world in which we hope to be seduced and moved by food, mayonnaise just sits there, daring us all to love it. Mayonnaise has a lineage that is easy to see its lineage: a family tree of exquisite, aristocratic sauces that might claim this very “common” descendant as its own only in hushed…
I’m in cook mode right now in this blissful post-holiday lull, staying in more often and making more food, too: waffles and squash soup, kimchi tuna salad and rainbow sprinkle cake. (And dinner, of course. There’s always dinner.) It’s a good time to be at home, and an even better time to up your cooking…
Headliner Coqodaq Beef or chicken? The restaurateur Simon Kim now has you covered either way. An owner of the Korean steakhouse Cote is opening what he calls a “fried chicken cathedral,” with a dining room framed by glowing, barrel-vaulted arches that disappear to infinity, thanks to a rear wall mirror. The design is by the…
Mr. Fortuna subsequently worked the doors and dining rooms at a succession of Manhattan restaurants, including Tavern on the Green, Lespinasse (in the St. Regis hotel), Mad. 61 and the refurbished Monkey Bar. In 1995, he finally had a restaurant of his own, the Lenox Room, on Third Avenue and East 73rd Street, in partnership…