Food

Christmas Eve dinner can vary depending on how you celebrate, but the meal should always satisfy and delight. Whether you abstain from meat and dairy, feast on seven fishes or roast pork...

Good morning. Dorie Greenspan returned to The Times this week with a paean to the joys of kitchen cakes — simple, largely unadorned cakes meant to be stored on a counter and...

Hanukkah is almost here, and I’m looking forward to heaps of beautifully fried latkes, golden and crisp on the outside, warm and tender on the inside.I find that I can never resist...

Often heard as a Christmas carol, Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” imagines the Nativity scene and closes with the question of what to bring as an offering.She first answers, “If...

Are we back to normal?As I shuffled through the archives to choose my favorites of the new restaurants I reviewed this year, it sure looked that way. New York City’s restaurant business,...

2022, are you over already? Inflation was the story of the year, as prices for pantry staples soared. Readers of The New York Times’s Food section turned to stories that helped them...

Right now, at the peak of the holiday party season, there are three things the well-prepared host ought to have at the ready: a swanky outfit, a festive playlist — and a...

‘Drinking With the Valkyries: Writings on Wine’ by Andrew JeffordFor years Andrew Jefford has been one of the English language’s most thoughtful writers and stylists on wine. He never settles for the...

It’s been a busy year for the New York Times Cooking community, as you cooked your way through the changing seasons. Your responses to the more than 700 recipes we published in...

I loved a lot of restaurants in 2022. Here are some where a normal person can eat an astoundingly good meal for about $10. An abnormal person, by which I mean anyone...