Food

It 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...

They 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...

Summer 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...

The 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...

One of my favorite dinner shortcuts is to nestle a hot roast chicken on a heap of sturdy greens like kale, baby mustard or watercress. The chicken fat coats and gently wilts...

“Double Scotch, single-malt.” I tried my best to get the words out confidently, hoping to channel Patrick Dempsey’s character, Dr. McDreamy, on “Grey’s Anatomy.” If a three-ounce pour of single-malt Scotch whisky...

New York City is full of restaurants that deliver the unexpected. A nearly 80-year-old Jewish deli run by a Yemeni family, scallion pancake burritos lowered from someone’s fire escape by bucket, bagels...

Sometimes it takes an entire meal before I know whether I want to write about a new restaurant. At Tobalá, an eight-month-old Mexican place in Riverdale in the Bronx, I was pretty...

When Brigette Ramirez and her family drove to Houston for a Taylor Swift concert, she made a very important pit stop. Three, actually: T.J. Maxx, T.J. Maxx and T.J. Maxx.Mx. Ramirez, 33,...

Foragers around the world hunt for wild mushrooms to bring their earthy, nutty, meaty flavors to the table. But every so often, people mistake a potentially lethal variety for the edible ones.A...