Food

For cheese of various textures, there are dedicated knives for cutting portions. But what about the contours of the cheese? ‌Whether you have picked up compact pyramids of Valençay or towering slabs...

A CLOUD CAPTIVE ON a plate, a meringue is a shape-shifter, an essential component of any pastry chef’s repertoire: It can be eaten nearly raw, a lightly bronzed heap of wobbly snow...

This Valentine’s Day, why not rekindle an old flame? Melissa Clark has three recipes to set hearts (and dinner) alight.

February is firmly upon us, and if, like me, you’d like to raise a toast to the end of Dry January, the writer Robert Simonson has just the thing: the Bee’s Knees....

It’s grim, but in every post-apocalyptic story line, I wait for the moment when the characters float their theories about how the world fell apart, hoping to glean something useful.In HBO’s series...

Good morning. The chef Chintan Pandya gave us a killer recipe for chicken tikka (above), his take on the classic Indian dish made with spiced yogurt-marinated chicken, skewered and then grilled or...

Bob Born, a Pennsylvania confectioner who brought the marshmallow candies known as Peeps to Easter baskets nationwide — and incidentally launched a pop-culture phenomenon in which people consume, dismember, microwave and even...

Hello, everyone. I’m a senior editor on the Food desk, and I’m filling in for Emily Weinstein this week.To me, cooked alliums like shallots, garlic and onions of all sorts are the...

Pita Bread: “Get yourself a good packet of Greek pita bread and add your favorite topping. Far more satisfying and cheaper by about 90 percent.” Wren, Sydney, AustraliaTortillas: “This will probably sound...

Chocolate is an easy choice for homemade Valentine’s Day desserts and this trio of recipes has something for everyone. Like relationships, they range in commitment: simple hot fudge sundaes get some help...