Good morning. I am all about Naz Deravian’s new recipe for chicken vindaloo, a Goan dish with Portuguese influences that is generally billed as one of the spiciest curries served at Indian restaurants in the west. (The name is adopted from the Portuguese dish carne de vinha d’alhos, in which meat, usually pork, is prepared…
“This was delicious!” “Great Friday night option instead of takeout. Fast, easy, satisfying.” “So rich and light, but filling!” Naz Deravian’s yaki udon recipe hasn’t been out in the world for very long, but it’s already racking up rave reviews from our New York Times Cooking readers. It’s not hard to understand why. Who wouldn’t…
It’s easy to take the grocery store for granted. After all, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the mundane task of picking up our weekly bread, fruit and cereal. Yet each store requires dozens and often hundreds of people to run — to fill the shelves, take inventory, organize displays of canned beans or help a…
Mike Grgich, the winemaker at Chateau Montelena in Napa Valley, and his staff were taken aback on May 25, 1976, after they received a surprising telegram. It read in part, “STUNNING SUCCESS IN PARIS TASTING.” What tasting? What success? Without their knowledge, Montelena’s 1973 chardonnay had been entered in a blind tasting held in Paris…
With dozens of children across the United States suffering from lead poisoning, federal regulators are now investigating whether the culprit is cinnamon that was added to some popular applesauce pouches, and if lead had been added somewhere along the global supply chain, either to enhance the spice’s reddish color or to add weight. In November,…
The French chef Yann Nury wants you to remember that the winter holidays will be over soon. Roasts will be sliced, served and forgotten; Champagne will be drunk. And, if you choose to serve canapés, each one you make, no matter how labor-intensive, will be gone in a single bite. “Enjoy the specific moments,” Nury,…
At the Dongsan Korean Reformed Church in Yonkers, N.Y., the cafeteria is twice the size of its worship space. The spacious, high-ceilinged room is filled with more than 40 round dining tables encircled by white folding chairs. After the 11 a.m. service every week, lunch is served and the tables fill up like a high…
In 2015, the first year Héctor Arguinzones celebrated Christmas in the United States, he longed to share his mother’s hallacas with his wife, Niurka Meléndez, and their son, Samuel. Hallacas, similar to tamales, are a signature dish of the holiday in Venezuela, where he and his family had emigrated from, but the only ones he…
Good morning. We’re in the chute now, hurtling toward the end of the year. It’s all checklists and traditions for me: the tourtière I’ll heat through on Christmas Eve; the ham I ordered for the day itself; the boozy eggnog for grown-ups; the cookies for the little ones. Will I greet 2024 with a prime…
Hi, it’s Becky again, and what a joy it is to fill in for Pete two weeks in a row! We’re in the throes of holiday party season, and things have been pretty festive around here … but the holiday party burnout is real. Cutting back on drinking is one way I’ve been managing my…