R.F.K. Jr. Wants to Overhaul the F.D.A. How Would Scientists Change It?

While some agree with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the agency needs reform, their ideas for fixing it are very ...

Party Appetizer Recipes That Start With Frozen Puff Pastry

These golden, flaky bites are sure to impress your guests during the holiday season.Melissa Clark’s simple potato galette comes together ...

Is Protein Powder a Scam?

Most people don’t need to consume this supplement, experts say, but it can be useful in certain situations ...

Is It Safe to Put Hot Food in the Fridge? And More Food Safety Questions, Answered

There’s a universal — and easy — answer to a common kitchen predicament.Portioning hot food when storing ensures it cools ...

Sign Up for Well’s 5-Day Ultraprocessed Foods Challenge

Try these simple steps for a healthier 2025 ...

How Long Do Thanksgiving Leftovers Last?

Here’s how to extend the life of your Thanksgiving leftovers — without getting sick ...

When Is My Thanksgiving Turkey Done? and More Thanksgiving Questions Answered

This is your year to be the turkey expert: Here’s how to know when to baste, how to carve and ...

The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line Are Thanksgiving’s Heroes

Follow four experts at the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line as they get ready for their biggest day.Four experts with the Butterball ...

Blue Blossom Puts a Modern Spin on Regional Chinese Dishes

OpeningBlue BlossomYou’ll find typical blue and white porcelain on the tables, as tiles and in a mosaic on the walls, ...

How Much Thanksgiving Turkey Should I Buy Per Person?

Have enough — but not too much — for a feast.Leftovers are always welcome, but you probably don’t want to ...

What’s Going on With All of These Food Recalls?

It might seem like there’s news about E. coli or listeria every week. Here’s what the data on food safety ...

New 2024 Thanksgiving Dishes Our Recipe Testers Loved This Year

Pickle biscuits, sour cream pound cake, esquites stuffing and more new recipes we think you’ll adore, too.A pear and cranberry ...

22 Thanksgiving Recipes Our Recipe Testers Loved

Pickle biscuits, sour cream pound cake, esquites stuffing and more new recipes we think you’ll adore, too.A pear and cranberry ...

What Are Seed Oils and Are They Actually Bad For You?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others claim they’re harming our health, but the evidence suggests otherwise ...

The Next Dietary Guidelines May Punt on Ultraprocessed Foods

There’s not enough evidence to recommend avoiding ultraprocessed foods, a scientific advisory committee says. Some experts disagree ...

Comfort Food Recipes

Send in the carbs.Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.By The New York Times Published Nov ...

Baking Recipes to Distract You

Take a break from your screen and make something delicious. It’s a win-win.Lidey Heuck’s classic brownies.Christopher Testani for The New ...

Bruce Springsteen Said He Follows the OMAD Diet. What Is It?

Bruce Springsteen said he does. We asked experts about the science behind the OMAD diet ...

Bake These Chewy Brown Butter Cookies on Election Day

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, interest in election cake resurfaced from its heyday more than 200 years ago. While ...

How These Home Chefs Cook With A.D.H.D.

From a young age, Linda Yi was drawn to the kitchen and loved watching her parents make Sichuan dishes inspired ...

E. Coli Symptoms and Treatment: What to Know After McDonald’s Outbreak

An outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people across 10 states. Here’s how to ...

Are Organic Foods Really More Nutritious?

Here’s how they stack up against their conventional counterparts ...

Are Organic Foods Really More Nutritious?

Here’s how they stack up against their conventional counterparts ...

Frozen Waffle Products Are Recalled Over Listeria Risk

Some products were sold under the brands of major retailers like Kroger, Price Chopper and Walmart. No illnesses so far ...

WIC Diversifies Offerings to Cover Naan, Soy Milk and More

The program, which provides free groceries to millions of women and children nationwide, now covers naan, soy milk, teff and ...

5 Healthy, Nutrient-Rich Whole Grains and How to Cook Them

These five lesser-known options are nutritional powerhouses — and delicious, too ...

The Thrifty Ingredient That Makes Weeknight Cooking So Much Easier

The humble lentil is a quick-cooking kitchen powerhouse.Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.By Ali Slagle ...

‘Imminent Threat’ Found at Boar’s Head Plant 2 Years Before Listeria Outbreak

Two years before a deadly listeria outbreak, U.S. inspectors warned that conditions at a Boar’s Head plant posed an “imminent ...

After Decades of Dry Martinis, It’s Great to Go Wet

Many adjectives have been attached to martinis over the years. Bartenders have plied drinkers with dirty martinis and filthy martinis, ...

Are Some Ultraprocessed Foods Worse Than Others?

A new study may offer the biggest clues yet ...

Can I Lower My Cholesterol Without Taking a Statin?

Here’s what the evidence suggests can work ...

How to Eat for a Long and Healthy Life

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach, but certain dietary patterns are more associated with longer lives than others ...

Why California Is Considering Banning Food Dyes in Schools

Concerns about their risks have been swirling for years. Here’s what the science suggests ...

More Parents Try ‘Baby-Led Weaning’ and Skip Spoon-Feeding

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead ...

What Killed Harmony Ball-Stribling?

One woman’s death reveals the myriad ways in which social and economic factors endanger pregnant women in the United States ...

How to Cook Steak

In the final installment of her YouTube series, Sohla El-Waylly helps demystify how to prepare three types of beef: ground, ...

Street Sheds Transformed New York City Dining. Many Will Soon Disappear.

New requirements for the city’s outdoor dining program are being met with concern by restaurant owners ...

Californian Wines, $20 to $40, to Drink Right Now

These bottles, from small producers, often cost a little more than their European counterparts, but they are superb with singular ...

Can You Defrost and Refreeze Foods?

Shuttling dishes and ingredients from fridge to freezer and back again can be totally fine, as long as you follow ...

Tom Hanks, Rudy Giuliani and Sofia Vergara Want You To Buy This Coffee

Household names like Tom Hanks, Rudy Giuliani and the Weeknd are betting big on brew. Here’s what we thought of ...

After Days Lost at Sea, They Needed a Pastrami Sandwich

A pair of scuba divers were dramatically rescued from the Gulf of Mexico. They knew what their first stop after ...

This Easy Tomato-Watermelon Salad Will Help You Beat the Heat

This simple, colorful salad from Melissa Clark features a mix of salted tomatoes, juicy watermelon and crisp anchovy bread crumbs ...

Restaurant Review: This Outstanding Yemeni Kitchen Began With an Escape From War

Yemenat, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, offers Yemeni delights rarely found in New York City ...

How to Cut Steak Against the Grain

It’s arguably the most important part of enjoying steak, but it can be hard to do if you don’t know ...

A Look Into Ultraprocessed Foods and Their Effect on Health

Understanding why they’re so easy to overeat might be key to making them less harmful, some researchers say ...

This Garlic Shrimp Recipe Will Transport You to Spain

You won’t even need to leave your yard with this menu, book-ended with escalivada, a traditional Catalan vegetable dish, and ...

These Nutrients Can Strengthen Aging Bones

Bone loss is a natural part of getting older, but prioritizing certain foods can help slow the process down ...

Pasta Salad Recipes

A thesis (and potentially unpopular opinion): Pasta salad is at its best when the salad element is kept at arm’s ...

A Pasta Recipe Perfect for the Weekend

Good morning. It would be nice to cook a project recipe this weekend, to spend Saturday tending to a brisket ...

South Korea’s Kimchi Masters Share Their Advice for Home Cooks

They have more than 200 years of combined kimchi experience, but ask any one of South Korea’s most esteemed kimchi ...

Naomi Pomeroy, 49, Chef Who Made Portland a Dining Destination, Dies

Update: On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office in Benton County, Ore., said that Ms. Pomeroy’s body had been recovered from the ...

Grilled Chicken With Arugula Pesto, Buttermilk Potato Salad With Preserved Lemon

I do not consider myself a wild child or a rule breaker. I use the left lane only for passing, ...

Pete Wells Will Leave Role as NYT Food Critic

Early this year, I went for my first physical in longer than I’d care to admit. At the time, I ...

Are Artificial Sweeteners Safer Than Sugar?

Health concerns have been mounting for decades. Here’s what the research suggests ...

The Most Memorable Pieces by Pete Wells

As The New York Times’s restaurant critic for the last dozen years, Pete Wells has reported from the dining-room trenches ...

What Are ‘Macros’ and Should You Track Them?

We asked nutrition experts if the purported health benefits of tracking macronutrients match up with the science ...

At the 2024 Olympics, France Puts the Food First

A wing of the Eiffel Tower has been cleared out to make way for a brand-new restaurant called Gustave 24 ...

The Best Canned Tuna Recipe

Tinned fish in pasta can be shy. Anchovies, for example, are often dissolved in oil for a midnight pasta, camouflaged ...

The Frenchette Team Breathes New Life Into Le Veau d’Or

Le Veau d’Or, an Upper East Side restaurant that dates from 1937 and has been closed for five years, reopens ...

The Eleven Madison Park Hospitality Guru Who Worked on ‘The Bear’ Opens Up

Until Season 3 of “The Bear,” only viewers who understood restaurant hospitality at its highest levels could spot the Will ...

In New York, a Lunch With Extravagant Jewelry and Local Dim Sum

When they were young, the jewelry and accessories designer Rolly Robínson moved with their family to the tree-dense outskirts of ...

Is a Fiber Supplement Just as Good as Fiber From Food?

Experts explain what fiber supplements can and can’t do for your health ...

This Vietnamese Classic Cake Is a Showstopper

Last May, Hannah Pham hosted her mother and her mother’s three sisters in Los Angeles, where she was working with ...

A Zucchini Noodles Recipe When It’s Too Hot to Cook

I look forward to the first zucchini of the season almost as much spring’s first asparagus. Taut, crunchy and with ...

How a Death Doula Throws a Dinner Party

As a child, Rebecca Illing would spend vacations with her parents and brother, Alex, at Paço da Glória, a gothic ...

Three Simple But Surprising Cocktail Garnishes

VideoCreditCredit...When it comes to cocktails, we’re living in a golden age of the garnish: At many bars, a martini is ...

Lausanne, Where the Olympics Never End

Every year is an Olympics year in Lausanne, Switzerland, a city of stone buildings, tile roofs and historic church squares ...

A Perfect Peach Pie That’s ‘Better Than My Mom’s

Good morning. There’s a road near where I stay that’s lined with orchards, and when the peaches get ripe there ...

Winner, Winner, Tandoori Chicken Dinner

There are lots of small, quotidian things that make me feel like a pulled-together person. Finishing a book. Making dentist ...

Cajun Shrimp Boil and More Summer Recipes

Good morning. There’s a spot way up in the back of the bay where the shore splits into a creek ...

Our Readers’ Favorite Pizza Places Around the World

Last week, the Food section of The New York Times published an article on a topic described by one reader ...

Ridiculously Good Soft Serve Ice Cream in NYC

When I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad what it felt like to be a grown up ...

‘Brat’ Green Summer Cooking

A neon green soccer kit floating up the subway stairs. A neon green traffic cone tumbled over the curb. A ...

Five-Ingredient Cookies for the Fourth

Happy Fourth of July! I’ll keep today’s newsletter short, because you have a barbecue (or the beach or a pool ...

Would the Restaurant in ‘’The Bear’ Season 3 Actually Work in Real Life?

This article discusses scenes from the beginning through the end of FX’s “The Bear” Season 3, now available in full ...

How to Make S’Mores 2 Ways

I never was a Girl Scout, so I came late to s’mores. I was already a teenager when I squished ...

Did You Find These Easter Eggs in ‘The Bear’ Season 3?

In its third season, “The Bear,” a television show known for its dedicated hyperrealism, did not disappoint fans looking for ...

Pizza Flavors Without Pizza Temperatures

We’ve had pizza on the brain here at The New York Times food section, ever since Brett Anderson published his ...

Our Favorite Nutrition Takeaways from 2024, So Far

Is red wine good for your heart? Are ultraprocessed foods really that bad for you? We have answers to these ...

The Secret Behind a Beloved Palestinian Dessert

Take a handful of tears. This is not an attempt at poetry: They are, in fact, called tears, these tiny, ...

Chestnut and Kobayashi Are Out, but These Competitive Eaters Chew On

Day to day, Julie Goldberg eats in a manner that could be described as “exceedingly normal.” She finishes her salad ...

Restaurant Review: Spice Brothers in the East Village

For a long time, I thought of Lior Lev Sercarz as the chef who got away.After moving to New York ...

Yellowtail Gets the Prosciutto Treatment and More at Kappo Sono’s Kaiseki Counter

OpeningKappo Sono“Elevated” has become the word of choice lately to describe restaurants. But for a truly elevated kaiseki experience, take ...

Food for July 4th: Grilled Hot Dogs, Honey Mustard Potato Salad and Berry Sheet Cake

The older I get, the more I love the Fourth of July. (This might be because, as a kid, I ...

Andy Baraghani’s Extra-Green Pasta Salad

Every summer I seize on one ingredient early on, my culinary song of the summer. As of now, watermelon is ...

The Century-Long Saga of the Caesar Salad

In the dimly lit dining room of Caesar’s, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, Efraín Montoya stood beside a table ...

A Perfect Ground Turkey Recipe for Summer

Let us now praise the lettuce wrap! Depending on what you fold inside, the frilly green leaves can make hand ...

Is Organic Produce Worth the Higher Price?

In 2022, organics accounted for 15 percent of all fruit and vegetable sales in the United States despite being far ...

How Healthy Is Watermelon?

Watermelon is the fruit of summer. In the United States, it’s more popular than cantaloupe, honeydew and all other melons ...

How to Grill a Hot Dog

Freeze a hot dog until it’s solid. That’s the first step to cooking one, according to a video published last ...

Skirt Steak Recipe for Sunday

Good morning. There’s a famous New York City dream where you discover an extra room in your apartment and it ...

An Atlantic Beach Pie State of Mind

My wonderful colleague Margaux Laskey described this Atlantic Beach pie to me as “excellent for a beach rental,” and my ...

How to Make Perfect Pasta

Pasta — that pantry workhorse, a staple of easy weeknight meals — can take on just about any ingredient thrown ...

Perfect Grilled Chicken Breasts

Good morning. When there are snapper bluefish running in the bays nearby, I like to catch a couple and break ...

Four Fantastic Frozen Drinks (and What to Eat With Them)

Merry heat wave! I’m back filling in and I’ll be writing more of this newsletter, alternating with our beloved Nikita ...

Four Fantastic Frozen Drinks (and What to Eat With Them)

Merry heat wave! I’m back filling in and I’ll be writing more of this newsletter, alternating with our beloved Nikita ...

Four Fantastic Frozen Drinks (and What to Eat With Them)

Merry heat wave! I’m back filling in and I’ll be writing more of this newsletter, alternating with our beloved Nikita ...

Four Fantastic Frozen Drinks (and What to Eat With Them)

Merry heat wave! I’m back filling in and I’ll be writing more of this newsletter, alternating with our beloved Nikita ...

How to Use Basil Pesto to Elevate Your Summer Meals

To the person who first wrote H.A.G.S. in my yearbook a lifetime ago: Thanks a lot. I’ve taken that mandate ...

How to Use Basil Pesto to Elevate Your Summer Meals

To the person who first wrote H.A.G.S. in my yearbook a lifetime ago: Thanks a lot. I’ve taken that mandate ...