Single what? Kyle who? The full names are now on the food map. SingleThread is the restaurant and inn that the chef Kyle Connaughton and his wife, Katina Connaughton, opened without much fanfare in early December 2016 in Healdsburg, Calif. The Michelin Guides soon picked up the scent and within 10 months awarded the restaurant…
When the drinks writer Kara Newman began work on her new book, “Nightcap,” she first had to address a central issue: Just what exactly is a nightcap, anyway? On the face of it, the answer seems simple: A nightcap is that final drink of the evening. It caps the night, and comforts like the nightcaps…
TOKYO — It’s going to be tough to replace 83 years’ worth of grime. As the fishmongers of Tokyo’s famed wholesale seafood market, Tsukiji, opened for their final day at their familiar site on Saturday, they and their customers lamented the end of an era of grunge. “Dirty is best,” said Yoshitaka Moria, 38, an…
Ireland is second only to Austria in rates of binge drinking, with 39 percent of Irish people over 15 reporting heavy drinking in a one-month period, according to a 2014 survey by the World Health Organization. The country’s Health Research Board estimated that in 2015 Irish people above the age of 15 consumed on average…
[For more on the Instant Pot, see our “How to Use an Instant Pot” guide.] Indian electric pressure cooker books are so popular that even Knopf Doubleday — a publishing house not generally known for appliance cookbooks — is releasing one by the renown author and actor Madhur Jaffrey: “Madhur Jaffrey’s Essential Indian Instant Pot…
RÍO LAGARTOS, Mexico — It is not a glamorous creature. The sea cucumber, a relative of the starfish and sea urchin, isn’t much more than a blob creeping across the ocean floor on tentacle-feet, munching on algae and plankton. The most interesting thing about the animal may be that some species defend themselves by ejecting…
The groundcherry might look at first like a purely ornamental plant. A member of the genus Physalis, it bears papery, heart-shaped husks that resemble Chinese lanterns. (The plant popularly known as the Chinese lantern is a close cousin.) Within each groundcherry casing is a small, tart, edible fruit, similar in appearance to a cherry tomato,…
Hi! I’m Emily, here with Five Weeknight Dishes, though today it’s more like Five Weeknight Dishes and a Bonus Make-Ahead. On Sunday evening, facing down a busy week, I decided to catch up on podcasts and make a batch of chili (have you ever made this amazing recipe by Julia Moskin?), something to have in…
Usually I go to the market or grocery store for inspiration, buy whatever looks most tantalizing and head home to make dinner. Other times, I have a more-or-less fixed idea of what I want, but haven’t fine-tuned it. The other day, I wanted meatloaf, but not any old meatloaf. I didn’t want an American-style version,…
“He’s so intelligent,” Dr. Matthes said. “We talk about something, he goes home, reads up on it and develops a recipe.” “Usually, patients say to us, ‘I know it’s healthy, but I don’t like it,’ ” Dr. Matthes added. “Now they are saying, ‘I never thought oats could taste so good!’ He’s a star chef,…