Every year after Halloween, when Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack’s carved jack-o’-lanterns looked soggy, her grandmother in El Paso saw an opportunity to repurpose them. Jesusita Soza, who had immigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico, would cut the aging pumpkin into pieces and simmer it in cinnamon, cloves and piloncillo to make a purée that she stuffed into empanada dough.…
With wine, there’s no point in fighting Thanksgiving dinner’s kaleidoscope of flavors. It’s best to find an easy way to flatter them. This year, a nonalcoholic white or red still wine — or both — would be up to the challenge. The quality keeps improving, with assorted well-made, nicely drinkable, food-friendly choices. At prices in…
Chances are that you, savvy New York Times Cooking cooker, don’t exactly need a roasted brussels sprouts recipe. Maybe you play fast and loose with it, switching up the seasonings, bringing in the broiler. But winging a dish can be risky when it comes to dinner gatherings with multiple dishes (and people) to juggle, to…
By Gisela Williams For over ten years, the Jaipur, India-based brothers and founders of Trunks Company, Priyank and Paritosh Mehta, have been on a mission to revive the steamer trunk and support local artists who make them. This week, they’ll be exhibiting 11 of the most ornate examples of the company’s work at the Salon…
Thanksgiving is a major production if you’re the host, and generally I encourage cutting a few corners. If it eases your workload, I say go ahead and buy the gravy or use the canned cranberry sauce. But I draw the line at dessert. As a baker, I give my all to the pie spread, making…
Mashed potatoes, while buttery and delicious, can also be a little uninspired. To me, they’ve always felt like filler on my Thanksgiving plate — an afterthought, more vehicle for gravy than anything else. I wondered: How could I turn a “just fine” side dish into something to get excited about? The answer may be brown…
In Sugar Land, Texas, there’s a refrain you may hear from residents — an unofficial city motto of sorts: Life is sweeter here. By many measures, it is. This Houston suburb is affluent, with a median household income nearly 70 percent higher than the nation’s. One of the world’s largest oil companies, Schlumberger, has a…
Of course, there are many meals between now and Turkey Day, and one of them could feature turkey’s fine feathered friend, the chicken. Kay Chun’s sticky coconut chicken and rice pairs gently sweet coconut rice with the bracing notes of fresh ginger, garlic and scallions, along with toasted cashews for crunch. Dash on some hot…
Experts explain the resistant starch trend circulating on social media.
It’s a Monday afternoon in the Tsujkiji branch of the Tokyo Sushi Academy and we’re about to be put to the test. Or I am anyway. Most of the other students enrolled in the Japanese Culinary Intensive course are professionals. They are local or from abroad, just brushing up on skills or adding to their…