Food

I’ve just returned from visiting friends in the French countryside where we cooked together, improvising dinner from whatever looked promising at the market that day. This is my absolute favorite way to...

In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These lists will be updated as restaurants close and open, and as we...

Good morning. The birds are back in town, chirping at dawn, flitting to and from the feeders set up out back, firing up the cat at the window. There’s no languorous idyll...

My relationship with bananas can best be described by paraphrasing Katy Perry’s 2008 song: We’re hot then we’re cold, we’re yes then we’re no, we’re in then we’re out, we’re up then...

Sebastien Blanc-Tailleur, a Parisian pâtissier, has always had a passion for confections. “I’ve been obsessed by pastry since I was a little boy,” he said. Since opening his eponymous business in 2015,...

Good morning. I’m telling you to make your own pasta this weekend and I understand that, for some, the command will lead to rolled eyes, to sighs and protestations. Fresh pasta seems...

On a recent afternoon, the kitchen inside a Denny’s in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens was bustling.Employees placed burger patties on a grill and pulled fries out of the vat of...

The air smelled of yeast and cheese and weed, and though what I had in front of me looked like a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut, it was in fact a...

In an era of rampant language baby-ification — “delulu" for confidently delusional, “stimmy” for stimulus check, “bb” for baby — one might forget that sando isn’t a cutesy shorthand for the word...

A&A Bake & Doubles Shop, Bedford-StuyvesantWhen I lived in Bed-Stuy in the 2010s, I would line up there early, because the star attraction was sold out by 9 a.m. That would be...