Food

As Yewande Komolafe writes in her recipe, thieboudienne (above), often referred to as the national dish of Senegal, is particularly lovely to assemble with friends — a perfect meal for a crisp,...

After making and tasting dozens over the course of my baking career, I had pretty much accepted that cinnamon rolls, like scones and madeleines, are good only when eaten fresh from the...

Good morning. It was one of those meals that sticks in your mind for days afterward: steamed lobsters with drawn butter and a plate of baby potatoes. I won’t wax on about...

Most mornings, around 6:30, Tharshan Selvarajah arrives at the Élysée Palace, seat of the French presidency, and unloads around 30 baguettes into the security scanner.The bread that is synonymous with France is...

Can’t get enough of the budding relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? Neither can ranch dressing.Ms. Swift, a 12-time Grammy winner whose stardom has reached new heights this year with the...

In 1992, my colleague Eric Asimov invented a new column for the Times that sought out “restaurants where people can eat lavishly for $25 and under.” By the time it was retired,...

Most of the time, I take a very casual approach to having guests for dinner. I don’t mind doing a little cooking while people hang out in the kitchen; in fact, I...

A few months ago, on the hunt for topics for this fine newsletter, I polled the masses (read: asked people on Instagram) for the ingredients they struggled to use up. The deafening...

The first leg of the 35-mile journey from Ghana’s capital city, Accra, to the Fairafric chocolate factory in Amanase on the N6 highway is a quick ride. But after about 30 minutes,...

At this point, we’re guessing you have a regular rotation of pantry pastas that you turn to when you’re tired, stressed and need dinner now. Maybe you have already mastered midnight pasta,...