For Many Big Food Companies, Emissions Head in the Wrong Direction

Five years ago McDonald’s said it planned to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third in parts of ...
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Big Flavors for the First Weekend of Fall

Good morning. There are a few things I want to cook this weekend beyond the usual Saturday morning waffles and ...
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How TikTok Fueled the Tinned Fish Trend

Mr. McGinnis was so intrigued that the next morning he went out and spent about $60 on about 30 tins ...
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The East Village Restaurants Where a Restaurant Critic Cut His Teeth

Hi, it’s Pete Wells, restaurant critic of The Times and longtime pierogi appreciator.It would be an exaggeration to say that ...
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Make Soup Now for When You’re Sick Later

There’s something in the air. No, I’m not talking about the promise of scarves and plaid button-downs wafting in the ...
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Where to Drink Wine in the Hudson Valley

In the last 15 years or so, a growing number of people have come to see the Hudson Valley as ...
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A Quick Corn Pasta That’s Just as Delicious the Next Day

A quick pasta for those who can’t quit corn (and a chocolate-chocolate birthday cake for everyone)By The New York Times ...
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At This Vending Machine, Four Quarters Get You One Surprise Artwork

By Wei TchouAn unusual nigiri will soon be on offer at Bar Miller, a new omakase restaurant in New York ...
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Roasted Chickpeas With Peppers and Goat Cheese Recipe

There’s a time-honored technique for roasting bell peppers. This recipe isn’t it.The tried-and-true method produces lissome, velvety peppers with a ...
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Four-Ingredient Nutella Brownies With a Five-Minute Prep Time

I nearly always end this newsletter with a dessert, as my sweet tooth demands, but sometimes you have to start ...
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A Chile Paste So Good, It’s Protected by the U.N.

That’s why the UNESCO designation felt like such a win. But for the brothers, it’s not a contest. It’s not ...
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A Dinner That Smelled Like Thousands of Flowers

“There’s a fountain with perfume in it?” asked the English actor Leo Woodall, his eyebrows raised in disbelief. One might ...
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BondSt Opens a Roomier, Splashier Sushi Spot in Hudson Yards

Chef’s Counter at AntoThe second floor counter for 10-course tasting menus ($195) at the restaurateur Tony Park’s Korean steak house, ...
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Restaurant Review: Game Meats, Barnacles and Other Adventures

Since it opened on a high-traffic strip of Avenue A in the spring, Foxface Natural has kept a low profile, ...
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Satisfying Dinners to Bridge Summer and Fall

Usually we’re here talking about recipes, but today I want to alert you to our freshly published Restaurant List for ...
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Luxurious Takes on Pâté en Croûte

Terrines Made for the Upper CrustPâté en croûte, the centuries-old French dish composed of meat terrine baked in savory pastry, ...
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Saving Chinatown, While Also Making It Their Own

SOME NIGHTS, IN her bedroom in a former tenement in downtown Manhattan, the fashion designer Sandy Liang can hear the ...
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Thieboudienne, the National Dish of Senegal, Is a Rice Masterpiece

Thieboudienne holds a special place among the cuisines of West Africa. This one-pot rice masterpiece is often referred to as ...
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Learn to Make Homemade Bagels for the Yom Kippur Break Fast

After the fast ends at sundown on Yom Kippur in many households, the meal of choice comes from the appetizing ...
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Yakgwa, Korean Honey Cookies, Are Booming

Once, when the chef Junghyun Park was young, his cousin brought a piece of fresh honeycomb over to his house ...
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An ‘Outstanding, Fast and Easy’ One-Pan Fish Dish

All hail the casserole dish! While I might push it aside when I’m reaching for a sheet pan, there are ...
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TikTok Cookbook Authors

Three years ago, B. Dylan Hollis was an unemployed musician in Wyoming who had never baked anything outside a home-economics ...
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Jules Melancon, Oyster Farmer Who Tried Something New, Dies at 65

Jules Melancon, a third-generation Louisiana oysterman who, rather than giving up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ravaged the ...
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The Joy (and Friendly Jostling) of Jollof Rice

Jollof rice is a West African dish made with rice, tomatoes, onions, lots of peppers and lots of spice. Nigerians ...
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White Chicken Chili, Creamy Za’atar Spaghetti and a Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie

There are two types of people: those who hang on to summer (and its tomatoes and corn and cucumbers) until ...
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Chicken Karaage, Pizza Salad and a Golden Knot of Challah

Good morning. I roasted a pig in a box, as I realize I’ve been doing for close to 20 years ...
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Three Seashore Restaurants for Summer’s End

Hi, it’s Pete Wells, restaurant critic of The Times and hopeless summer person. I love summer and everything that comes ...
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An Exhibition of U.F.O. Art Lands in Idaho

By Zoey PollSeen from Paris’s Pont de la Tournelle, the eight-story facade of the landmark restaurant La Tour d’Argent looks ...
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Rice Recipes

I’ll start with an apology, because you’ve been cheated out of your weekly Tanya-mail. Instead you’re stuck with me, Becky, ...
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The Best 20 Wines Under $20

Carlos Raposo Dão Impecável Tinto 2021, 13 percent, $18.99Impecával, which means impeccable, is an apt description for this fresh, pure, ...
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Chile Crisp Fettuccine With Spinach, Sheet-Pan Bibimbap and Quick Chicken Fajitas

We’re not sure how it’s already mid-September, which speaks to just how busy this time of year can get. The ...
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Shakshuka, Chicken Noodle Soup Plus More Dinner Ideas

Eating breakfast for dinner is always a comfort, especially when back-to-school season is roiling schedules, routines and nerves. It’s time ...
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Colorado Restaurants Receive Michelin Stars

Five restaurants in Colorado — four in Denver and one in Aspen — each won a Michelin star on Tuesday ...
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One Dead in Botulism Outbreak Linked to Sardines at Bar in France

A woman has died and at least a dozen other people have become ill with botulism in France after eating ...
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This Easy Vegetarian Pasta Recipe Uses Corn in a Brilliant Way

What is it about pasta salad that makes it such a divisive dish? Is it that the many bad versions ...
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Why Artists Can’t Quit Cigarettes

This past spring, Andrew Gori, 40, and Ambre Kelly, 44, the founders of the Spring/Break Art Show — a fair ...
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How Yotam Ottolenghi Was Seduced by Soba Noodles

I started cooking soba noodles long before I experienced the real deal. (I say this with a pinch of salt ...
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Angie Mar’s Beatrice Inn Returns, in Spirit, at Le B

CarlotaClassic tapas with assorted vermouths and wine-based libations, including sangria, are the rule at this sibling to Bar Belly.14a Orchard ...
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Quick Dinner Ideas to Make Again and Again

September to me has always been defined by back-to-school, even in the years when I wasn’t in school and didn’t ...
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A Bathtub in the Kitchen? Not a Problem for New Yorkers.

Many New York City renters will recognize this scenario: You’re on your fourth apartment tour of the day when a ...
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Michelin Stars Can Come With Some Costs for Restaurants

When the chef Caroline Glover heard in June that Michelin would be publishing a restaurant guide to Colorado, she was ...
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The Museum at FIT Explores the Intersection of Food and Fashion

“Food & Fashion” — an exhibit at FIT’s museum that coincides with Fashion Week — begins with a gallery that ...
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This One-Pot Orzo Recipe Uses a Clever Corn Trick

I thought I’d tried every way there was to cut the kernels off an ear of corn. I braced the ...
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Easy Dinner Ideas for Tonight

Oh, September. You are madness. You are back-to-school and back-to-work after August laze and Labor Day. You are crisp new ...
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Plum Torte Recipe

Good morning. It’s Emily again, and I’m thinking that today is a great day to make Marian Burros’s plum torte ...
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The Best Concord Grape Jelly Recipe Takes Some Work

Food memories can sometimes run backward, to a moment when we first experienced entirely new sensations. This is not that ...
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Best Chicken Parmesan Recipe

Hello, all. This is Emily, the editor in chief of Cooking and Food at The New York Times, and I’m ...
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How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?

FROM A PROFIT perspective, the appeal of synthetic vanillin is clear. True vanilla is a demanding crop, so labor-intensive that ...
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Spicy Paqui ‘One Chip Challenge’ Is Being Pulled After Death

The tortilla chip company that challenged consumers to eat a single chip made with two of the hottest peppers in ...
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The Best Green Salad Uses the Juiciest Tomatoes

My mother loved leftover salad. No matter what a long night in the fridge had inflicted upon the lettuce and ...
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The Best French Fries in New York City

There are many good things to eat at Libertine, a new French bistro in the West Village that I reviewed ...
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Dinner Recipes You’ll Be Happy to Eat Again for Lunch

Despite September’s promise of fresh starts and autumnal abundance, shuffling kids back to school, commuting to an office or simply ...
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Marian Burros’s Beloved Plum Torte Turns 40. Here’s Its Story.

This article was updated on Sept. 7, 2023, in honor of the torte’s 40th anniversary.When Marian Burros, a longtime food ...
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In Mexico, a New Space for Hot Pink Wicker Lamps and Spiky Bowls

I have quite dry skin and eyes, so I need all the moisture possible. I use a Neostrata Matrix Support ...
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A Designer Who Starts With Destruction

T Introduces: Linde Freya Tangelder’s Luminous New Collection for CassinaIn Linde Freya Tangelder’s opinion, great design starts with demolition. “To ...
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The Hyperreal Wonders of Glacé Fruit

INSIDE A GILDED Rococo room on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, candied fruits dangled from winterberry tree branches. Hand-sewn to ...
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Recipes for Rosh Hashana

On entering Oded Halahmy’s Pomegranate Gallery in New York City, the bright red fruit is all you see: some fresh, ...
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Galbi and Tteok Skewers Recipe

Despite my love for charred vegetables and steaks, I’m a fair-weather griller. If I lived in a more temperate climate, ...
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The Hunt for the Ideal Bánh Mì

While canonically Vietnamese, the dish’s origins are global: bánh mì were referenced in Vietnam as early as the early 1800s, ...
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A Food-Lovers Tour Through Emilia-Romagna

Two hours after we started, we reached the Santuario di San Luca, a palatial 18th-century church that offers panoramic views ...
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Restaurant Review: Libertine in the West Village

There is a type of New York bistro that people like because it reminds them of other New York bistros ...
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How to Cook Missy Robinsons’s Pastas at Home

HeadlinerMisiPasta“My dream project for 25 years,” is how Missy Robbins described the latest addition to Lilia and Misi, the Brooklyn ...
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BonBon Brings Its Swedish Fish to the Upper East Side

BonBon, the Swedish candy emporium with hundreds of choices, introduced itself to New York on the Lower East Side, then ...
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Simple Recipes That Are Short on Budget, Big on Flavor

Hello, weeknight fans! This is Krysten, stepping in for Emily. Is this your first day back from vacation? You’re not ...
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Pork Industry Grapples With Whiplash of Shifting Regulations

These were supposed to be boom times for Pederson’s Natural Farms.In the days this spring after the Supreme Court upheld ...
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Allergies and Special Dietary Restrictions Put College Dining Halls to the Test

For the staff of the Michigan State University dining halls, serving roughly 27,000 students each semester has never been a ...
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Baked Spaghetti Recipe

Hello! Mia again, here with you for one more Cooking newsletter adventure before Melissa returns on Wednesday.Today is Labor Day, ...
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Grilled Peaches and More Labor Day Recipes

Hello from Atlanta, where school started a month ago and we are deep into packing lunches, working hard and trying ...
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The Glamorous, Lonely Lives of Private Chefs

In July, Tashea Channell Younge, a private chef and caterer from New York City, flew to Los Angeles, all expenses ...
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3 Italian-Inspired Recipes for Late Summer

I love this time of year, when summer produce is at its glorious best, even though I know it won’t ...
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Pigs in a Blanket Recipe

In the waning days of summer, taking the Cooking newsletter out for a spin can feel a bit like speed ...
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A Summery Tomato Pasta Recipe That’s Ready for Fall

If the allure of summertime cooking is its lack of effort, and winter’s is its opportunity to linger (and labor) ...
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Corn Recipes for Late Summer

When I stepped out for coffee this morning, I was met with the most welcome surprise: crisp, 65-degree air and ...
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Red or White Wine? Or Something in Between? Decoding the Wine Color Wheel

The New Spectrum of WineHere is a brief primer to help navigate these terms if you see them in a ...
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In Detroit, a French Brasserie That Feels Like a Portal to Paris

By Laura BannisterThe Brazilian artist Wanda Pimentel’s “Envolvimento” paintings (1968-84) are hard-edged domestic vignettes — kitchens, bathrooms, the insides of ...
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The Fight to Control Big Gay Ice Cream in New York City

It was all rainbows and unicorns for a while. But like many fun ideas, Big Gay Ice Cream has wound ...
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Taco Soup Recipe

Hi there! We’re so close to the holiday weekend, let’s ignore some emails and think about food.This beautiful, blue-skied shoulder ...
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A Meal in France Showed Me the Brilliance of Simplicity

How did they know how to live like this, giving themselves to the moment, this murmur of voices, these reflections ...
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In the Faroe Islands, Art, Food and Fashion Take a Cue From Nature

Huddled in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Scotland and Norway, the Faroes — an 18-island archipelago and self-governing nation within ...
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NYC Korean Restaurants for Standbys, Cheesy Pork Cutlets and More

Yes, you can eat standout Korean food without going brokeI wrote this week about the rapid rise in Manhattan of ...
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Korean Fine Dining Restaurants in NYC

A few months ago, a number of serious food journalists asked out loud whether fine dining was dying, or possibly ...
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Easy Chicken Dinner Recipe Plus Coconut Rice With Shrimp and Corn

1. Ginger Chicken With Sesame-Peanut SauceThe peanut sauce is so dominant and delicious that you could skip marinating the chicken ...
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New NYC Restaurants Worth Trying in 2023

New restaurants open all year round in New York City, but fall arrives with the snap of fresh tablecloths, napkins ...
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Skip the M&M’s Store and Head for ‘The Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine’

All gilded and ready to party, a new sardine store, “The Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine,” has opened in ...
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Easy Fish Recipe, Back-to-School Lunch Ideas and More

Hello! Welcome to the last week of August. I don’t know where the month went, either.I’m always trying to eat ...
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Best Hamburger Helper Recipe

Hi! I’m still here, Sam’s still on vacation, let’s talk about what to cook this week.Sometimes, you put a recipe ...
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Claire Saffitz on How to Make Macarons

In the baking world, French macarons, an almond sandwich cookie consisting of two meringue shells filled with ganache, buttercream or ...
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Peppery Stuffed Eggs, Gingery Chicken Noodle Soup and Easy Blueberry Pie Bars

Hello! This is Priya, filling in for Sam Sifton. Anyone know where that guy is?! (Just kidding, he’s on vacation.)My ...
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Seafood Is Safe After Fukushima Discharge, But Some Won’t Eat It

Seafood is having a bad week in East Asia, which is bad news for a region where it’s a major ...
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A Recipe for Shrimp Scampi Lovers

This rosé shrimp recipe eluded me for months.As May, June and July bled into August, I found myself cooking iterations ...
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The Best New Bars to Drink in New York City This Fall

New York is reborn every fall, and what would a new season be without new places to usher in the ...
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Best Wine Bar Menus in NYC

Well, there’s no use trying to hide it: I’m not Nikita Richardson. Nikita is on assignment with another department in ...
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How to Blister Your Vegetables

On a recent Saturday, after a leisurely afternoon plodding around Prospect Park, two friends and I strolled toward a Japanese ...
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Sushi Bake Recipe

I’m not supposed to play favorites with New York Times Cooking recipes — which is impossible anyway, given our vast ...
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The Secret to the Greenest Pesto

My colleague Julia Moskin says that restaurants are New Yorkers’ living rooms. With no space of our own, we look ...
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First They Appeased Poseidon. Then They Ate Lobster.

Dreamers, artists and doers have long been drawn to the Maine coast; the author E.B. White wrote his 1952 children’s ...
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How to Preserve Summer Herbs in Your Freezer for Year-Round Cooking

Parsley — the herb I use most, week in and out — is almost never on my shopping list these ...
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Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare Names New Successors

Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, a much-praised tasting-menu restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, has been closed since July, when its chef, ...
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On ‘Top Chef’, Kristen Kish Takes Over as Host

One day last week, a vase spilling over with white lilies and roses arrived in Kristen Kish’s dressing room in ...
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Verano Brings Mexican Fare to Hudson Yards’ Public Gardens

HeadlinerVeranoThough the new seasonal attraction in Hudson Yards takes the Spanish word for summer as its name, the plan is ...
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