For a while now, my husband and I have been making the same dinner every Sunday night. He makes the fish — a seared, salt-and-peppered fillet of whatever looked good (or was...
Read moreThere are bodega cats, there are bookstore cats, and then there’s Sabrina the restaurant jaguar.Sabrina is the life-size faux (not taxidermied) feline perched atop a tree branch like the Cheshire Cat at...
Read moreLaliko serves traditional Georgian food in an intimate setting, Sal Lamboglia steps in for Ferdinando’s Focacceria and more restaurant news.
Read moreI wish I liked the phrase “ground meat” as much as I like the dinners you can make with it. Ground turkey, chicken, beef, pork and other meats are the delicious and...
Read moreThere are few customers Conor Proft appreciates more than people who eat alone.A bartender at the Italian restaurant Fausto, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, he said the solo diners he serves tend to...
Read moreThe night before Eid al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the Ramadan fast, markets in Karachi, Pakistan, bustle with preparations. This evening, which this year falls on Saturday, is known as Chand Raat,...
Read moreIt seems I’ve been neglecting grapefruits lately, what with all those eye-catching blood oranges, kumquats and bergamots hanging about. Then in walks Ali Slagle with her stunning new recipe for miso-butter chicken...
Read moreGood morning. Five years ago I was a week into lockdown, terrified of the pandemic raging outside my door. I’d laid in supplies to keep my family fed for a month, acquired...
Read more“Lazy people, this cake is for you.”So goes Melissa Clark’s clarion call to her lazy daisy cake, also known as Danish dream cake (drømmekage). The “dream” part, I’d guess, is the tender...
Read moreGood morning. The ospreys are returning to their winter-ravaged nests near my home waters this week, after long passage from South America, a sure sign of spring. The striped bass will show...
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