Chaat Party Has Entered the Party Chat

Good morning. We were out on the water last weekend, chasing striped bass in the Lower Bay south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; along Midland Beach on Staten Island; at Sandy Hook and Romer Shoal in New Jersey; off Breezy Point, in Queens, then east along the Rockaway Peninsula to the beach club we call the…

Jammy Tomato Eggs for a Bolstering Breakfast

Is there anything more luxurious than a hot breakfast, leisurely prepared while in pajamas on a chilly weekend with coffee in hand? (Possibly, but for the sake of this particular New York Times Cooking newsletter, no.) And is there anything more comforting than a treasured family dish that transports you home with the first spoonful?…

Onion Bhajiya Recipe for Diwali

At the home of the cookbook author Palak Patel, the days leading up to Diwali are spent cleaning her kitchen and preparing the numerous snacks and mithai, or sweets, they’ll deliver to friends and family for the South Asian festival of light. Her mother, Mala Patel, fries dried snacks, like Mathia, to fill giant frosting…