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...
Read moreThe celebration of Carnival — occurring this year just before Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 22 — is marked in Scandinavia with yeasted pastries variously called semlor (Swedish), fastelavnsboller (Danish) and laskiaispulla...
Read moreThere’s a mild, wheaty aroma wafting from the host stand at the Midtown Manhattan pasta restaurant Jupiter. It’s not from the pasta. An herbaceous, vegetal smell fills the bathrooms at Horses, a...
Read morePeople with different flavor obsessions tend to appreciate each other’s passions — lemon lovers understand chocoholics, and chile fiends click with squint-seeking sour-candy obsessives. But when it comes to texture, there can be a...
Read moreThere is perhaps no Zoom meeting less satisfying than one scheduled on a cold weekday morning to talk about food — specifically, the food that one ought to eat in Paris. We...
Read moreGood morning. An Italian hero (above) is one of the great American sandwiches, whether you call it a sub or a hoagie, a grinder or a wedge. Most people buy Italian heroes...
Read moreGood morning. An Italian hero (above) is one of the great American sandwiches, whether you call it a sub or a hoagie, a grinder or a wedge. Most people buy Italian heroes...
Read moreThis year, Feb. 21 isn’t simply another Tuesday in New Orleans: It’s Mardi Gras. And while the prevalence of bead-related nudity is exaggerated, the sheer amount of food and drink celebrants will...
Read moreBefore going home to Philadelphia to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, Cheyenne Corin, 27, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., texted her mother a special request: cheese steaks topped with caviar.“Cheese...
Read moreMy family loves squash soup.At home, I make a lot of kabocha no nimono, a classic Japanese dish featuring chunky, skin-on dice of kabocha squash simmered in dashi broth seasoned with mirin...
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