Learn ‘Modernist’ Bread Making Basics With This Free Online Course

The latest hefty volume quarried by the team at Modernist Cuisine, the research kitchen, photography studio and cookbook publisher founded ...

‘I Have Made This Recipe Many, Many (Many!) Times’

If there’s ever a “secret” ingredient to my cooking, it’s probably anchovies. Tossing a few genial fillets into just about ...

Learn How to Bake: Five Easy Recipes for Beginners

The poet Emily Dickinson was an avid baker, and, on the back of a recipe card for coconut cake, she ...

5 Bold New Restaurants to Try in Brussels

Brussels, long the realm of stuffy French restaurants packed with gray-flannel-suited diplomats, has suddenly gone bold and bright. Thanks to ...

Stock Market Bars in London Show the Gamification of Drinking

“Buy, buy, buy,” a bargoer shouted just after 6:30 on a recent Wednesday evening. He grabbed two shot glasses, vodka ...

A Rich Braise From a Cheap Cut

Good morning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all those who celebrate. I like corned beef and cabbage myself for the ...

Irish Cream Coffee Cake

I always get a kick from cooking with booze. “Shots!” I’ll announce to nobody in particular as I add the ...

We Want to See Your Grocery Shopping Receipts

What someone buys at the grocery store can say a lot about who they are. Who hasn’t peeked into the ...

Make Guinness Beef Stew on Saturday for Sunday

Good morning. How are you doing? This week marks four years since many of us went into lockdown after the ...

The Surprise Ending of ‘Dune,’ the Popcorn Bucket

In the “Dune” movies, a gigantic sandworm can rise from the desert and devour soldiers and military vehicles in its ...

Restaurant Pop-Ups Are About the Thrill of the Hunt

Restaurant pop-ups, by their very nature, are ephemeral and hard to pin down. But they can also be destinations for ...

Freeze Your Tofu

To open my freezer door is to ask for trouble. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to catch the bag ...

Handmade Porcelain Painted With Brooklyn Blossoms

By Nicole DeMarcoFor over 20 years, Melissa Goldstein worked as a magazine photo editor. While researching imagery, she developed a ...

Hello, Halloumi

I found halloumi later in life, and we connected instantly. It’s salty, tangy and squeaky, an underrated quality in cheese ...

How to Braise Meat

In this column, Ask Kenji, the cookbook author Kenji López-Alt answers your questions. This week, he tackles tough questions about ...

An Easy Chicken Dinner Recipe, Rich With Greens

If the overabundance of root vegetables like sunchokes, black radishes and kohlrabies the size of my head is the late-winter ...

Weeknight Chicken Marbella, Briny and Lush With Olives and Prunes

My parents’ initiation into elevated home cooking came by way of Julia Child’s soufflés and coq au vin, but for ...

An Indulgent, Crunchy and Molten-Cheese-Covered Chicken Delight

The act of triple-dipping goes back to my early years. Three shallow bowls: one with flour, another with beaten egg, ...

How Crudités Became an Art Form

The New York-based private chef Yann Nury has a simple strategy for transforming unadorned produce into showstopping canapés. “It’s all ...

Don Angie’s New Restaurant San Sabino Looks to the Food of Campania

HeadlinerSan SabinoWith this new venture, the married chefs Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli, and their partner Michael Stillman’s Quality Branded, ...

Five Easy Dill Dinners

Spring is so close I can taste it — or at least I’m trying to taste it, as I load ...

NYC Dining Sheds Are Here to Stay. Here Are the New Guidelines.

Like them or not, the outdoor dining sheds that have been an upshot of the pandemic are more or less ...

How to Make Crispy Tofu

About 1,500 years ago, in the mountains of northern China, you might have found bamboo mats lined with slabs of ...

Pantry-Friendly Persian Lentil Rice With Dates

I became a regular at Sofreh the minute Nasim Alikhani first flung open the doors to the chic Persian restaurant ...

The Golden Mall Food Court Plans for Second Location in Manhattan

When the Golden Mall opened in Flushing, Queens, in 1990, its patrons didn’t mind getting lost within the maze of ...

When Your Restaurant Cancellation Fee Costs as Much as Dinner

To celebrate his wife’s birthday in 2022, Brian Azara, a mechanical engineer in New York City, booked a table for ...

Your Grilled Cheese Needs Toum

Good morning. I’m embracing nostalgia today, luxuriating in memories of a Brooklyn I never experienced, even though I’m borough-raised. Imagine ...

Why Cabbage Is the Coolest Menu Item

If I were a vegetable, I would hire cabbage’s brand manager.Cabbage has spent an eternity as the workhorse of the ...

Luscious Miso Leeks With White Beans

I respect leeks. They stand firm and tall above their allium kin, their jade-green tops proudly poking out from your ...

Max Hardy, 40, Dies; Helped Bring Chef-Driven Cuisine to Detroit

Max Hardy, who helped bring a new level of chef-driven yet accessible cuisine to his native Detroit, and who was ...

A Hearty Irish Bread Absolutely Anyone Can Make

The first time I had brown bread from Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland, was at a welcome lunch for ...

Big Birds, Baked Beans and Brown Bread

Good morning. I’m going hard on the fats and proteins this weekend. That’s not only because it’s still winter, but ...

A Chicken Stew With Mayan Roots

Seven years ago, just as Jorge Cárdenas was about to open Ix Restaurant in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, he returned ...

New York City’s New Power Lunch Restaurants

Back in 2016, shortly after I joined the magazine Bon Appétit as an assistant editor, two of the top editors ...

It’s Date Night

On a recent night in the East Village of Manhattan, the Avenue A sidewalk brimmed with chattering bargoers as Tupac’s ...

Breakfast Pasta for Dinner (or Dinner Pasta for Breakfast)

When I’m tired and hungry and there’s nothing promising in the fridge save for a half-dozen eggs, there’s always breakfast ...

Bakery Packaging Supplies

Bakery packaging supplies are essential in maintaining fresh pastries, cakes and other baked goods. Plastic Wrap Plastic wrap is a ...

Chelsea Hotel’s Cast of Characters, Captured by Its Resident Photographer

In the morning I tend to wash my face before I get in the shower. I usually use the Dr ...

Supper Clubs in New York Are a Vanishing Breed. Café Carlyle Is Keeping the Tradition Alive

On a Tuesday evening last December, the singer-pianist Michael Feinstein was at Café Carlyle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in ...

This Persian Lentil Rice Recipe Only Feels Expensive

A bowl of lentils and rice is essential comfort food across so many cultures, be it South Asian khichdi, Middle ...

‘This Is the Best Dinner I’ve Ever Made’

We’ve had a few glorious days of faux spring here in New York City, a balmy omen of sunshine to ...

The Best Dessert Mom Made for Us, but Better

In my mother’s kitchen, in the cabinet above the stove, lives a rectangle baking pan. It is chestnut brown, true ...

6 Charged With Smuggling Goose and Duck Intestines From China

Some were in crates marked as “pet nail clippers.” Others were hidden under packaged rattlesnakes, a complaint filed in Federal ...

Does Yogurt Reduce Diabetes Risk? The FDA Allows Companies To Claim It Can

The F.D.A. will now allow yogurt makers to claim it can — but the evidence is mixed ...

A Pasta That’s Perfect for Easy Cleanup

Last week, I asked for your favorite brilliant and easy dinners after I shared a new one of mine, Eric ...

If You Close It, Will They Come?

HeadlinerMarc179, the Chef’s Counter at GreywindYou’ll be able to dine at this pair of new restaurants about as often as ...

How Minimum Wage Changes Affect Tipped Workers and Diners

The last few years have fundamentally changed Americans’ relationship with restaurants. As the pandemic made diners more aware of the ...

‘Hot Sheet’ Lays Out Sweet and Savory Recipes for Sheet-Pan Devotees

Some cutting-edge appliances like the air fryer may have risen in popularity lately, but the simple sheet pan has become ...

Roasted Kale and Sweet Potatoes With Eggs and Rosemary Chicken Ragù

Congratulations! You’ve made it through February, the shortest — and longest — month of the year. We all get extra ...

Chicken Recipes From Sohla El-Waylly

For beginners and experienced cooks alike, preparing chicken can come with a lot of questions (and nerves!). Am I going ...

Go Big With Bibimbap

Good morning. On Sunday, I like a project in the kitchen more than on any other day. It’s a chance ...

A Citrusy Salmon Recipe With the Salad Built Right In

Citrus and salmon is a winning combination, previously proven in New York Times Cooking’s recipes for broiled salmon with mustard ...

I Left My Heart in San Francisco-Style Garlic Noodles

Good morning. The vernal equinox is in less than three weeks, but you wouldn’t know it from the frosted mud ...

The One Way to Roast Every Kind of Vegetable

The kindest thing you can do for yourself when you’re stiff from being in the cold is to find some ...

Three Excellent Reasons to Dine in Bushwick Right Now

Lately I’ve found myself in Bushwick … a lot. The last time I was in the neighborhood this much I ...

To Find the Best Values in Italian Wine, Look to Abruzzo

The Abruzzo region of eastern central Italy, on the Adriatic coast, is home to Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a popular red wine ...

Trustworthy Recipes for False Spring

During a trip to the grocery store this week, I was stopped in my tracks by my one true harbinger ...

A Complexly Flavored (but Weeknight-Friendly) Vegan Curry

One of the best perks of being the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking is the digging I do ...

How Does a Day Job Affect an Artist’s Work? This Exhibition Has an Idea

The Hawaii-born artist Toshiko Takaezu was known for her ceramic works that redefined the genre with their “closed forms,” as ...

This Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Salad Is a One-Pan Take on a Southern Classic

The first time I heard a friend praising “wilted salad,” the memories came flooding back. They were not entirely good.I ...

Dinner Party Menu Ideas

Having friends over for dinner tomorrow? Do yourself a favor and make everything today.More and more, I cook today for ...

A Creamy One-Pot Pasta That Pretends It’s Risotto

The secret to the silkiest pasta sauces is not oil, cheese or even copious amounts of butter and cream. It’s ...

An Easy Way to Elevate Your Grapes

Grapes are half snack, half compulsion. Bunched as if just snipped from the vine, skins taut and shining, they are ...

Companies Were Big on CBD. Not Anymore.

Just below rows of energy and kombucha drinks at Westside Market, a deli in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, sit ...

Why Are Grapes Suddenly Everywhere?

Grapes have been associated with pleasure since ancient times, a symbol of Bacchus, the god of wine and revelry. These ...

The Los Angeles Restaurant That Sold Hollywood on Mexican Food

WHEN I WAS growing up in Stockton, Calif., in the 1970s and ’80s, there were only two special-occasion restaurants acceptable ...

Restaurant Review: Noksu

I can’t remember the last New York restaurant that frustrated me as much as Noksu.My frustration won’t be widely shared, ...

What Chefs Really Think About Tipping, Diners and the Industry

What do chefs actually think about what it’s like to run a restaurant today? What do they say when they’re ...

The Thrill of a Great Steakhouse Isn’t the Food. It’s the Theater.

I love the theater of the steakhouse — the kind that has been open for 50 years and counting, rarely ...

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Highlights Failings in Food Safety System

Cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches sold in grocery and dollar stores last year poisoned hundreds of American children with extremely high doses ...

Central Park Boathouse Reopens

HeadlinerCentral Park BoathouseIt will soon be spring and the Boathouse, which has been a fixture on the edge of the ...

Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival Moves to Brooklyn

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami just wrapped up this year’s run. Next stop: the ...

Five-Ingredient Peanut Butter Noodles, a Weeknight (or Midnight) Win

Less is more: These are words to live by in the kitchen, especially midweek between 5 and 8 p.m. There ...

What to Know About Lead Poisoning in Children

A recent outbreak of lead poisoning from cinnamon in applesauce has drawn attention to the toxic effect the heavy metal ...

A Vibrant Vegetarian Soup That’s Barely Any Work

Lacking the Italian suavity of farro or the good-for-you cred of quinoa, barley might seem a little frumpy. Thank goodness ...

What to Know About Xolair and Food Allergies

The Food and Drug Administration approved a drug this month that cuts the risk of severe reactions in children and ...

Drug Drastically Reduces Children’s Reactions to Traces of Food Allergens

A drug that has been used for decades to treat allergic asthma and hives significantly reduced the risk of life-threatening ...

Hoecakes for Weekend Breakfast; ‘Those Meatballs’ for Weeknight Dinner

Good morning. I like a savory breakfast on the weekend — maybe a bowl of congee studded with peanuts or ...

6 Podcasts for Foodies

Plenty of podcast listeners catch up on their favorite shows while doing household chores like making dinner. But if you’re ...

Macaroni and Peas, Buttermilk Roast Chicken and Shabu Shabu

We know that frozen peas are a freezer staple — they’re just as good as their fresh counterparts, and they’re ...

See a Day in the Life of a New York City Dishwasher

When you’re a dishwasher at Gage & Tollner, there are no slow times. At this historic Brooklyn fine-dining restaurant, revived ...

Finding Great Coffee in Ho Chi Minh City

Other than Brazil, no nation produces more coffee than Vietnam. Introduced by French colonists in the 19th century, the country’s ...

Gochujang Is Always a Good Idea

Good morning. The dogs ran for miles in the snow, and then snoozed deeply in the back of the truck ...

3 Vegetarian Stew Recipes That Don’t Take Hours on the Stove

A slowly bubbling pot of stew on a cold winter evening, steam rising and scents wafting, is the epitome of ...

The Best Bakeries Embrace Sweet and Savory

Much to my dentist’s dismay, I love sweets. A meal simply doesn’t feel complete without something sugary at the end, ...

Every Little Thing We Cook Is Magic

Cooking is, in almost every way, magic. Every day, we trot into our kitchens with an idea and a few ...

This Sesame Chicken With Cashews and Dates Is ‘Crazy Delicious’

We’re in a strange sort of shoulder season, cookingwise. We’re ready for spring’s freshness, but are not quite done with ...

‘Veselka’ Review: Serving Up Support for Ukraine

You would be hard pressed to find a New Yorker unfamiliar with the name Veselka. The pierogi and borscht eatery, ...

How a Nutrition Expert Really Eats

We asked a nutrition professor and dietitian how she keeps up healthy habits without stressing about food ...

Why Do Some Fruits and Vegetables Freeze Better Than Others?

Welcome to my new column, Ask Kenji. I’ve spent the last decade and a half of my career rigorously researching ...

If Garfield Made Soup, He’d Make This Soup

Of all the wildly popular American takes on Italian cuisine (spaghetti and meatballs; fettuccine Alfredo; chicken Parmesan), the latest to ...

The Night Owl’s Special: Midnight Spaghetti

I recently moved in with a man. Until now, for the last decade, I lived alone in a shoe-box studio ...

How Bob Moore, of Bob’s Red Mill, Got Grocery-Store Famous

Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods was founded in 1978, but it wasn’t until several years later that the company hit ...

At Lolita, Serving Mexican in Midtown, Agave and Sugar Cane Drinks Rule

HeadlinerLolitaThe name couldn’t be more innocent or less Nabokovian. Lola, the 2½ -year-old daughter of Jillian Lockhart, an owner, was ...

The Story of Hercules Posey, George Washington’s Enslaved Chef

On Feb. 22, 1797, while George Washington celebrated his 65th birthday at a ball in Philadelphia, his celebrated chef, Hercules ...

The Wine Shop Millesima USA Doubles in Size for Its World-Class Selection

Upon entering the new Millesima USA wine shop, relocated earlier this month from a few blocks uptown, you’re in a ...

Quick, Cozy Soups That Taste Like They Simmered All Day

Hi, Five Weeknight Dishers. It’s Krysten, former editor of this very newsletter, stepping in for Emily this week.If we are ...

For Carla Hall, It’s Been a Bumpy Climb to a ‘Top Chef’ Life

Carla Hall’s tarot card reading was running long. Astrology, numerology, psychics, the Chinese zodiac — she’s open to all manner ...

Culinary Hubs Put a Twist on Home Cooking

Nestled in the dense, residential Los Angeles neighborhood of Victor Heights, a tightly packed plot of Craftsman and Victorian homes ...

Simple Yet Surprising Skillet Ginger Chicken With Apricots

Cold February nights call for slowly simmered stews and braises; heady, savory aromas; and bowls of succulent, fall-off-the-bone meats.But what ...