Food

If you can boil water, slice an onion and use a strainer, you can make niku udon, a Japanese beef noodle soup that is the cookbook author’s go-to weeknight dinner.

I’m back! Thank you to Becky Hughes for covering for me while I was out sick. For this month’s reader questions, we have a reader who wants to know where to grab...

Visiting a South Asian sweet shop during Diwali is a joyous and chaotic experience. Lines trail out the door. Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and...

The dark ages probably began when the Rainbow Room stopped taking reservations and turned into a wedding space. After that, Rockefeller Center went for years without having a restaurant that you’d really...

Good morning. I learned to make cherry pepper sauce (above) one afternoon at the restaurant Carbone in New York, alongside the chef Mario Carbone. I love the heat of it, and the...

“Restaurants began as places to show off status,” said Andrew P. Haley, an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. Generally, this took place in public, where discerning diners...

In ancient Egypt, chamomile was considered a gift from the divine. Offerings of the flower were made to the powerful sun god Ra as a form of worship; King Tut’s sandals were...

At first, the revival of Korean royal cuisine was largely confined to the academic sphere. In the 1980s, only a few restaurants ventured to serve it, a number of them run by...

I’ll start with the bad news: Nikita is out this week, so you’re stuck with me again. Now, the good news: Look around! This fall weather is gorgeous! October feels like the...

I’ll start with the bad news: Nikita is out this week, so you’re stuck with me again. Now, the good news: Look around! This fall weather is gorgeous! October feels like the...