Food

I keep a running list of topics I want to cover in this newsletter, and I had a couple in mind for this week. Breakfasts that get me out of bed in...

The last lunch for the last president of Afghanistan was vegetable fritters, salad and steamed broccoli.Nasrullah, the head chef at the presidential palace in Kabul, fried the fritters and steamed the vegetable...

It feels like a luxury in New York too, to eat sopa de maní on a cold and bright winter afternoon, at a plank of a table under a makeshift roof in...

With a small stack of handmade tortillas at her side, a shy Mexican grandmother in a purple apron looked at the camera and introduced herself to the world.“I’m going to present to...

We all look forward to spring and summer vegetables, but it’s still a bit too early for peas and asparagus, even here on the West Coast. So let’s enjoy the great cool-weather...

HONG KONG — Yang Bing-yi, the founder of Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese restaurant chain whose signature soup dumplings have attracted crowds around the world and one of the rare Asian restaurants...

Jay Tracy was just trying to solve a problem: He wanted to identify which cucumber varieties might perform best in hot, dry Tucson, Ariz., where he lived in 2009.Traditional cucumbers didn’t like...

No Restaurants AllowedI visit the city regularly, and my wife and I are looking for a good bar with a real bartender that serves good food at the bar. I do not...

Headliner Seoul SalonThis New York interpretation of a Korean sooljib, a spot for drinking, is from Ellia and Junghyun JP Park, the wife-and-husband team who own Atomix, Atoboy and Naro with their...

Ten years after the Cronut, croissants are still taking on new shapes, sporting swirls and stripes and drawing crowds.When the baker Amadou Ly spotted the right moment to pull his croissant dough...