One of necessities of infrequent grocery shopping is keeping a handle on what I’ve already got in the fridge, where real estate is limited. Over the weekend, I purged, and among the jars of half-eaten condiments were three containers of kimchi. It was obviously time to make kimchi soup. The dish I made was a…
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Cooking is a balm, and in this especially difficult time, it can keep us safe. With that in mind, we’ve made many more recipes than usual free for the using, even if you haven’t yet subscribed to NYT Cooking, and we’ve written articles to guide you, in finding recipes and in the act of cooking…
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In recent weeks, foods of all kinds have flown off the shelves at grocery stores as Americans stocked up to weather the coronavirus pandemic. But sales of “comfort foods” like potato chips, pretzels, pancake mix and cookies have seen a particularly dramatic surge. That may not be surprising: They are cheap, satisfying and shelf stable.…
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Over the last three weeks or so, I’ve been fielding a lot of Q.C.Q. (Quarantine Cooking Questions), and while I am working overtime on “social media” trying to answer them, I thought it would also be useful to start using this column to answer the most frequently asked. So, here goes: Yes, you can use…
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As anyone who has packed some for a picnic can attest, fried chicken travels well. So it’s an excellent choice for takeout and delivery. Across the city, you can find fried chicken everywhere from chains to high-end restaurants. The majority are American, especially Southern-style, but there are also dishes from South Korean, Japanese and European…
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Early on Feb. 1, John Inglis picked up his phone and checked Twitter, as he does most mornings. He was shocked at what fresh hell awaited. Since 2013, Dr. Inglis, executive director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New York, has been helping manage a website called bioRxiv, pronounced “bio archive.” The site’s goal:…
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Last week Angela Missoni took a walk in the garden of her house in Sumirago, a snug town in Italy about an hour northwest of Milan. After a month in isolation, a difficult morning on Zoom and a steady drumbeat of bad tidings for business, she needed some air. “You can imagine the kind of…
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I had high ambitions for my time in lockdown. Finally, with no restaurants to check out and no one to check them out with, I would have my nights to myself. I was going to watch all of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” and “The Sopranos” and “Parks and Recreation,” for starters. Proust and I would resume our…
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When we published our list of 52 places to visit in 2020 three months ago, no one could have guessed how much our world would change. And now, given our stay-at-home circumstances, we’d like to invite you on a series of virtual journeys: You can wander into the belly of an Egyptian pyramid, explore the…
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This just in: Alison Stewart, the host of the arts and culture talk show “All of It” on WNYC, is a self-described stalker. Ms. Stewart stalks sofas and tables, paintings and photographs. She stalks buildings, too, which is how she came to buy an apartment in a Chelsea townhouse more than 20 years ago. “I…
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