Food

Isonia Serrano has accomplished a lot in her 35 years at the Smarties candy factory: She has worked her way from machine operator to leading her own team, become an expert in...

When Eric Ripert was a young cook at La Tour D’Argent, possibly the oldest restaurant in Paris and certainly one of the stuffiest, all the cooks sat down before service to a...

Afflicted with painful endometriosis, which doctors infuriatingly used to call “the career women’s disease” — Franklin recounts Jones bleeding profusely in her assistant’s cubicle, then going back to her desk — she...

You could freestyle, too, and cook without recipes, as we all ought to do more often as the lessons of recipes reward our attention with confidence. Say, a kale salad dressed in...

“Full-bodied reds with a lot of alcohol are harder to replicate because when you remove the alcohol you’re taking out the backbone of the wine; having a little oak and some tannins...

The Southern California restaurateur Kwini Reed has spent years tying herself — and her business model — in knots trying to meet the competing needs of her customers and her staff.Sometimes it...

Just a few months after the pandemic sent Americans indoors, Mia Graber received a lidded nonstick skillet the color of spruce pine needles, complete with a steamer basket and a wooden spatula...

Dominique Isabel Pascale Crenn receives countless DMs on Instagram from people trying to get a table at her San Francisco restaurant, Atelier Crenn. She doesn’t usually respond.But when Maria Elaina Bello sent...

I may get my good-taste card revoked for this (and maybe never be asked to fill in for Nikita Richardson here again), but I’ll choose a cookie — any type, really —...

The unofficial kickoff of cookout season — Memorial Day weekend — hurtles toward us like an errant Frisbee in an overcrowded park. Will you meet it with rec-league reflexes and roll up...