Hi! I’m Mia, the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking, doing my best Tanya Sichynsky impression for you today. I’m delighted to be here to talk about the only thing I want to eat this time of year: Big Hot Vegetables. Big Hot Vegetables can take many forms, but their crucial characteristics are that…
The second half of December is about being as extra as possible: piling on all sorts of sparkles and spangles, adding an extra length of lights to the tree, putting one more log on the fire. This applies to cooking, of course, with a good example being this cheesy spinach bake. It is, as Ali…
It’s not a big deal making eggs and toast to feed one or two. It’s when you try it for a crowd that things start to get tricky. The eggs or the toast always wind up cold, which is bad enough on a weekday, and even worse on a holiday morning. But turn those ingredients…
It’s been a hard year, and finding small joys feels particularly important right now, around the holidays. When I considered which treat could deliver that happiness in this season (aside from cookies, of course), I remembered the first pastry I learned as a restaurant cook. In the basement corner of a little French bistro, we…
With January’s resolutions still safely in the distance, I’m spending these last festive weeks of December cocooned in a buttery, sugary haze. Obviously I’m leaning hard into cookies (so many cookies), but I’m also making sure there’s cake around, just to maintain a balanced diet. Yossy Arefi’s lemon yogurt cheesecake is perfect for a sugar-enhanced…
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The rising interest in cocktails and spirits over the past quarter-century has led to an explosion of conventions and festivals all over the world where drinks are poured and discussed in depth. Africa, however, has been largely absent from this global party. That situation will change next year with the arrival of Ajabu, in South…
It’s not just Karl, though. Who else “invented” Christmas? Could we say Charles Dickens, maybe, whose book “A Christmas Carol” is credited with creating an image that lives on with the “traditional” holiday of today. Of course, the December date was marked for a long time before the Victorians. Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor,…
The theme of this year’s list of my favorite new restaurants in New York City is: bigger. Some of the places I reviewed most enthusiastically this year were bigger versions of existing restaurants. I Sodi, where fans of Rita Sodi’s Tuscan cooking used to be packed in tighter than anchovies, moved around the corner and…
It’s almost impossible to find a restaurant that does everything right. Even tracking one down with a single great dish on the menu takes dedication and a few lucky breaks. But the joy in knowing about those places is tremendous, particularly when you happen to find yourself around the corner from one. What follows is…