The way Paul McCartney remembers it, the centerpiece of his family’s first vegetarian Christmas dinner, in the late 1970s, was a slab of macaroni and cheese. “I wanted something to carve,” he said in a phone interview last week. Mary McCartney, his daughter, said the “macaroni turkey” was an early success: cooked in advance, shaped…
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We’ve nearly made it to the end of the year, and here’s hoping you will soon be gathered (safely!) with the ones you love, eating something delicious for one of the very many holidays from now to New Year’s Day. In my book, this week, of all weeks, calls for a little indulgence, a culinary…
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It was nearing midnight on Day 8 of a two-week photo shoot when I rolled out dough for a sheet of graham crackers. Using a long ruler as a guide, I cut perfect rectangles, then pressed straight lines of dots with a fork. Going into the oven, it looked flawless. Coming out, it had buckled…
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Aaron Jay Ledesma knew that Timothy-Keith Schau Earley would one day be his husband on their fourth date. Mr. Earley, who goes by Tim, had cooked for Mr. Ledesma for the first time that evening, in June 2015, serving one of his specialties, shepherd’s pie. After dinner, the two snuggled on the couch with Mr.…
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“Bozo is my hero,” David Arquette said on a chilly Sunday morning, as he spray painted a Frisbee-sized red circle on a warehouse brick wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. “We want to let that clown out.” Dressed a bit clownish himself in a Bozo trucker cap, Mickey Mouse-pattern Vans and white jeans with…
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In a season made for gathering around the table, the role of the after-dinner drink is twofold: to aid digestion and to keep you lingering — so you can finish one conversation and, with the tip of a bottle, pull the thread of another. Just as an aperitif is meant to open both meal and…
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“They don’t know how good they have it,” Christine Berrios said of her two children as she walked her son Noah into the small prep kitchen at Torico, her family’s ice cream shop in downtown Jersey City. Noah, 5, had been making pancakes with his grandmother, Pura Berrios, upstairs and came down to the first…
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Ted Cruz fighting with Big Bird on Twitter was not on our 2021 Bingo card. Yet the Texas senator’s tweet, calling the “Sesame Street” character’s November announcement about getting the Covid-19 vaccine “Government propaganda…for your 5 year old” provided a clear example of a contemporary phenomenon: It’s getting harder for people to distinguish real-life characters…
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Last month, I crowded into a wooden booth at NoLIta’s Thai Diner with the chefs Kia Damon, Andrés Tonatiuh Galindo Maria, Chintan Pandya and Missy Robbins; the pastry chef Melissa Weller; and the T writer-at-large Ligaya Mishan for a languorous weekday lunch. Between slurps of fantastic khao soi and tom yum soup, we compiled a…
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The Museum of Modern Art honored Penélope Cruz at its annual Film Benefit on Dec. 14, with tributes from fellow stars who were all dressed in Chanel. On Dec. 10, Susanne Bartsch, the nightlife queen, collected more than 5,000 gifts at her annual Toy Drive, held at Sony Hall; the toys were donated to local…
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