Food

I am a lover of soups that seamlessly balance contrasting flavors — the herbed, spicy bite of a classic Lagosian pepper soup or the coconut creaminess and tomatoey sharpness of a moqueca....

I had the good fortune to eat eggplant Parmesan for dinner this week (not made by me!), and it got me thinking about the intense pleasures of the Parm family — not...

Good morning. Melissa Clark has her recipes for sheet-pan dinners and they’re fantastic, providing fast, flavorful meals that are, among other things, easy to clean up. Our colleague Yotam Ottolenghi calls these...

What a gift it would be to bottle up summer and enjoy it in the thick of February. Plenty have tried. Sea salt hair spray never quite replicates those natural beachy waves,...

It’s easy to forget that citrus has a season unless you live among the trees, somewhere warm where you can catch its daydream scent with the winter breeze. If you know that...

Take the key players in the one-pan paprika chicken. There are lentils, chicken, kabocha squash and sour cream in the dish. Legumes, protein, squash and dairy: it’s a combination I play with...

NEW ORLEANS — The first dish served at Dakar NOLA is called Last Meal. It’s a soup of black-eyed peas, crispy rice and Louisiana blue crab, with robust spicing that recalls this...

A lofty layered cake is a lovely thing when the occasion calls for one, but sheet cakes, while maybe not quite as impressive, have a lot going for them. Not only are...

As juicy and succulent as the meat of properly roasted chicken may be, I’m really in it for the bronzed bits of skin curling at the edges of the bird.Salty, crispy and...

Every winter, my friend Troy gives my family a jar of his homemade Seville orange marmalade. A tawny jelly packed with shreds of candied peel, it’s less syrupy than the store-bought version,...