I happen to live near a small but great seafood market, where the fish is impeccably fresh. Their poached shrimp is plump and juicy; the housemade cocktail sauce has just the right...
Read moreWithout Celestino García, New Yorkers might go without some of their most beloved bagels. At well-known shops like Court Street Bagels and Tompkins Square Bagels, you can see long lines out the...
Read moreGood morning. “Sister, I do what I do, and I do it better than most, and I take some satisfaction in that,” John D. MacDonald wrote in “One More Sunday.” (The novel...
Read moreIt’s dark. It’s 39 degrees outside. And it’s 2:40 a.m.At a bus stop in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, Celestino García, wearing a black puffer jacket, jeans, gray Skechers and a...
Read moreThe chefs Liz Johnson and Will Aghajanian, partners in business and marriage, have attracted nationwide attention and a celebrity following for their informal, sophisticated cuisine at the Catbird Seat in Nashville, Mimi...
Read moreMr. Mahle likes to use Rhône grapes like grenache or mourvèdre, and he prefers to make a rosé.“I only wanted a rosé,” he said. “Red wine didn’t make sense to me. It...
Read moreIt may be spring, but summer — and all its abundance — is on the horizon, ready to encourage breezy communal dining under the glow of the sun and the grill. No...
Read moreThey say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when I think of necessity, mothers and invention, I think of my colleague Priya Krishna and her mother, Ritu. Years ago, after...
Read moreSummer can be a punishing time of year — the heat! — but it can also be the most rewarding, full of juicy stone fruit consumed precariously over the kitchen sink, plump...
Read moreThe best advice for making shrimp cocktail I ever learned came from the great chef and cookbook author James Beard.He was adamantly against it.Not the shrimp, of course, which he adored, but...
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