Food

Michael Foote was at dinner with three friends at Soothr, a Thai restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan, when he looked up and noticed he was the only one eating.“We had...

Good morning. Happy Mother’s Day to all who serve.Mine loathed the holiday. She called it a conspiracy of the Hallmark-florist industrial complex. Still, I think she was always secretly thrilled when one...

I usually use this space to provide helpful information, important context or a back story for a recipe. But in this case, for Ina Garten’s perfect roast chicken, I don’t think you...

Last year, the chef Jeremy Fox started developing a recipe for a cheeseburger at his Santa Monica restaurant Birdie G’s. It affected him in strange ways.“For the last more-than-a-decade, any mention of...

Good morning. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.! We drove down for a wedding and ate all over town, cosmic kids in full costume dress.There was exceptional pizza from Talula’s on Cookman Avenue,...

It’s a well-known fact that the time between 3 and 5 o’clock in the afternoon is a liminal space (as well as the scariest time of day to ride the subway —...

On a rainy Saturday last month, I sat down in a salon chair and made peace with the fact that I’d be there some six-plus hours. Such is the reality of a...

I’ve realized that part of why I love eggs is because their gentle blandness — with a little richness from the yolk — is a good excuse to be assertive with the...

The typical restaurant wine-by-the-glass selection is overpriced and predictable. Many people can recite it by memory.There’s a glass of Champagne at $30, with a cheaper sparkler like Prosecco at $17. Then a...

In the 1980s, an assistant at Glamour took her romantic life to the next level with the aid of two lemons and a chicken. At the suggestion of one of the magazine’s...