Food

One question I’m often asked is where I get my inspiration for new recipes. My answer? Eating in restaurants! The best restaurant meals don’t just feed your body; they fuel your curiosity,...

Last month, when the celebrity chef Mario Batali settled two lawsuits brought by women in Boston who said he had groped them in public in 2017, it seemed as if the long...

It’s that time again! If you’re just joining us, every month I play concierge and help guide subscribers through the dense and delicious jungle that is New York City dining. This week,...

You don’t need a ton of ingredients for a meal that sings.The recipes featured here are marvels of resourcefulness, offering enormous flavor in little time and with seven ingredients or fewer (minus...

Last week I got an email from a reader named Rachel that really spoke to me, and will probably speak to anyone who’s ever had to feed children or another phalanx of...

The best thing about a meal of steamed mussels is the sauce left at the bottom of the bowl. Yes, I adore the bivalves themselves — those sweet, saline nuggets plucked out...

Good morning. I had a remarkable heirloom tomato pizza the other day, at Lucia of Avenue X in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sal Carlino, the chef and owner, bakes a white pie and...

There was a storm here over the weekend — rumbles of thunder and thick, gray skies, a soaking wet garden in the morning. It’s cooled down a little too, and all I...

ON A LATE spring evening in 1536, a dinner party was held in a garden in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome. The festivities were presided over by Bartolomeo Scappi, a provocative chef...

Honey cake, a springy loaf called lekach in Yiddish and traditionally served at Rosh Hashana, is not my favorite holiday dessert. So I was thrilled when, in the 1990s, Charles Fenyvesi, a...