Food

It’s easy to take the grocery store for granted. After all, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the mundane task of picking up our weekly bread, fruit and cereal. Yet each store requires...

In 1972, despairing of ever running his own place, he was offered the winemaker’s job at Montelena, which Mr. Barrett was just starting. Mr. Barrett, a Los Angeles lawyer, envisioned making a...

At the Dongsan Korean Reformed Church in Yonkers, N.Y., the cafeteria is twice the size of its worship space. The spacious, high-ceilinged room is filled with more than 40 round dining tables...

In 2015, the first year Héctor Arguinzones celebrated Christmas in the United States, he longed to share his mother’s hallacas with his wife, Niurka Meléndez, and their son, Samuel.Hallacas, similar to tamales,...

Good morning. We’re in the chute now, hurtling toward the end of the year. It’s all checklists and traditions for me: the tourtière I’ll heat through on Christmas Eve; the ham I...

Hi, it’s Becky again, and what a joy it is to fill in for Pete two weeks in a row! We’re in the throes of holiday party season, and things have been...

Hi! I’m Mia, the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking, doing my best Tanya Sichynsky impression for you today. I’m delighted to be here to talk about the only thing I...

The second half of December is about being as extra as possible: piling on all sorts of sparkles and spangles, adding an extra length of lights to the tree, putting one more...

It’s almost impossible to find a restaurant that does everything right. Even tracking one down with a single great dish on the menu takes dedication and a few lucky breaks. But the...

It’s not a big deal making eggs and toast to feed one or two. It’s when you try it for a crowd that things start to get tricky. The eggs or the...