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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
This Clam Chowder Recipe Is Easier Than Most
We’re on a high with cooking at my house. Pretty much everything we’re eating is from one farmers’ market or ...
It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season
I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), ...
It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season
I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), ...
It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season
I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), ...
It’s Dumpling Tomato Salad Season
I usually start these newsletters with a personal anecdote or some deeply insightful cooking observation (just go with me here), ...
Where Is the Best Pizza in the United States … and the World?
This week, Brett Anderson looked deep into America’s emergence as a pizza capital, and the New York Times Food staff ...
The Key to the Best Roasted Chicken Thighs
I’ve long hoarded the fat from every strip of bacon, every duck breast or leg I cook, decanting the drippings ...
Dreamy, Creamy Coconut-Lime Rice With Peanuts
Hello! Mia again, filling in for Melissa Clark today. She’ll be back with us next week.When I moved into my ...
Kraam Dresses in Indigo to Serve Seasonal, Contemporary Thai
OpeningKraamA sleek white, gold and blue room (kraam means indigo) is the setting for a vibrant, distinctive Thai menu.Instead of ...
How Lychee Cake Became a National Obsession
During the Lunar New Year of 1988, Selena Wong wanted to create a special dessert for her family in Kingston, ...
The Best Gazpacho Recipe Is in Fact the Best
It’s time for our annual reminder that gazpacho is the queen of summer cooking, a coolly satisfying remedy for intense, ...
The Best Pizza in America Right Now
Pizza in America has never been better. The wood-fire Neapolitan pizzerias that took off in the early 2000s, and have ...
Why You Should Drink Wine?
Around the globe, much of the wine world is feeling besieged and stigmatized.Sales are down, way down for some. New ...
Pizza in America Is Better Than Ever
Marisol Doyle wasn’t bothered by the frozen dough and canned mushrooms common in the pizzas she ate as a kid ...
Our Readers’ Favorite NYC Sandwiches
Last week we published a project we’ve been working on for quite a while: a list of 57 sandwiches that ...
How to Travel Safely if You Have Food Allergies
For the 33 million Americans managing any of the most common nine food allergies — including milk, eggs, nuts, wheat, ...
‘The Bear’ Season 3 Is a Cultural Phenomenon
The first time I heard a stranger say “corner” outside a kitchen, I was taken by surprise, but pretty soon, ...
‘The Bear’ Season 3 Is a Cultural Phenomenon
The first time I heard a stranger say “corner” outside a kitchen, I was taken by surprise, but pretty soon, ...
‘The Bear’ Season 3 Is a Cultural Phenomenon
The first time I heard a stranger say “corner” outside a kitchen, I was taken by surprise, but pretty soon, ...
A Pasta Recipe for Meh Mondays
Hello! Mia here, filling in for Melissa Clark today. How are you? I’m … tired. Maybe it’s the heat, maybe ...
A Pasta Recipe for Meh Mondays
Hello! Mia here, filling in for Melissa Clark today. How are you? I’m … tired. Maybe it’s the heat, maybe ...
A Pasta Recipe for Meh Mondays
Hello! Mia here, filling in for Melissa Clark today. How are you? I’m … tired. Maybe it’s the heat, maybe ...
How A.I. Imitates Restaurant Reviews
The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Conn., is a revelation. The crust, kissed by ...
How A.I. Imitates Restaurant Reviews
The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Conn., is a revelation. The crust, kissed by ...