At an office Thanksgiving potluck in Dallas last month, employees showed off their home cooking (and their catered shortcuts): There was spicy mac and cheese and roasted brussels sprouts, candied bacon and...
Read moreA jar or can of Thai curry paste is a pungent gateway to so many excellent weeknight meals. Mixed with coconut milk and simmered with vegetables, tofu or meat, it’s one of...
Read moreOn the northern coast of Puerto Rico — about an hour’s drive west of San Juan, off a wisp of a road threaded through dense green foliage — there exists a long,...
Read moreGood morning. Remember when you weren’t that good at this business of preparing food for yourself, your family, your friends?It might have been when you were just a kid and didn’t know...
Read moreThe seaweed-wrapped leek fondant circle, sitting on a generous pour of pea-green wild herb sabayon sauce and topped with yellow and red flower petals, made for a colorful (and tasty) contrast to...
Read moreFor something more substantial — though we would gladly make dinner out of appetizers, to be clear — Kay Chun’s recipe for pernil-style chicken thighs applies a garlicky, oregano-and-citrus rub to everyone’s...
Read moreIn October, on the second floor of a former spinning mill in east Belfast, the visual artist and author Oliver Jeffers, 46, hosted a candlelit dinner for a group of Irish and...
Read moreTrousseau is a grape from the Jura in France, as well as the Douro Valley in Portugal, where it’s called bastardo. This bottle, which I pulled from a forgotten corner of my...
Read moreGood morning. Hanukkah got underway last night; Christmas is looming and Kwanzaa’s right on its heels. In less than a month we’ll be in 2024. It’s the season of holiday parties. Be...
Read moreThere is a cheese that may stand alone. In proud fetidness, that is.Rory Stone, a 59-year-old cheesemaker at Highland Fine Cheeses in Scotland, has been overrun with orders for a washed-rind cheese...
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