For some time now, La Quercia, the cured meat company in Norwalk, Iowa, has been selling its version of ’nduja, a spicy spreadable proscuitto popular in Calabria in Southern Italy. Now it has added two more similar concoctions: ground pancetta and pesto bianco made with seasoned lardo (pork fat). They’re great to keep on hand…
This roomy new pot has rows of holes in the lid, which locks in place, so the cook can drain liquid while keeping the food, like vegetables or pasta, in the vessel. At five and a half quarts, it’s big enough to accommodate long pasta like linguine. The interior of the hard anodized aluminum pot…
Daniel Lee introduced soju, the popular Korean spirit, to his friend at George Washington University, Maxwell Fine, some time ago in New York. The two decided to make their own without artificial sweeteners and other additives, as a sideline to their day jobs in finance and law. Named for the Manhattan block known as Koreatown,…
This is the 11th year for the New York City Wine & Food Festival, held from Oct. 11 to 14 and benefiting No Kid Hungry and the Food Bank for New York City. The events — around 80 dinners, brunches, demos, book signings, cooking classes and entertainment — will take place throughout the city, in…
This new guide to 100 chiles is organized according to heat, starting with bell peppers, the mildest, with no more than a hundred Scoville Heat Units, the scientific measure of spiciness. At the high end, with often more than 1 million units, are Dorset Naga, Naga Viper, Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate 7-Pot, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and,…
Good morning. Top of the week at the end of the month, the high holidays gone and Columbus Day hull-down on the horizon, dawn coming a little later now, sunset earlier. In some precincts: Anxiety’s rising. Fall’s meant to be a new start, just as it was when we were all children off to a…
“Kuchyn is a place where people choose with their eyes first and then their nose,” Marek Janouch said. Mr. Janouch is head chef at the latest Prague venture from Ambiente, the group behind Michelin-starred La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise and a host of other restaurants around the city that have been elevating Prague’s food scene. He…
Anne Russ Federman, who gained a New York brand of culinary celebrity as one of three sisters with whom Joel Russ shared the name of his venerable Lower East Side temple of herring, lox and other delicacies, Russ & Daughters, died on Thursday at her home in Pembroke Pines, Fla. She was 97 and the…
A Holistic Skin-Care Range to Inspire Wanderlust At Aman Resorts, pampering goes far beyond high-thread-count sheets and elegant slippers: The luxury hotel group is known for offering treatments in the settings of spa fanatics’ dreams — a private safari tent on the outskirts of an Indonesian rain forest, an onsen overlooking Japan’s majestic Ago Bay.…
Sign up here to receive the Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter in your inbox every Friday. The recipes are also available on NYT Cooking in the Weekly Plan in your Recipe Box. You can save your favorites there. Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Some recipes announce themselves as weeknight-friendly in warm, breezy tones, only…