A Whirlwind, Round-the-World Food Tour of Queens
The $3.50 kebab was supposed to be a stopgap measure, a placeholder for a lunch that would have to wait until after an appointment in Manhattan. Neither the foil-wrapped sandwich nor the...
Sweet, Sour and Ready to Top Toast
My introduction to caponata, when I was a teenager, was a supermarket version from a shelf somewhere near the tinned sardines and anchovies. It came in a distinctive disc-shaped glass jar, about...
Could This Be the End of Frankincense?
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have revered the sweet aroma of frankincense. In Ancient Egypt, embalmers stuffed it inside the bodies and tombs of pharaohs and queens and its...
Make It Easy
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, where we are always about simple cooking, but especially so this week. The holiday has passed, the days are getting hot, school is off, work...
For No-Sweat Summer Cooking, Do It Sous Vide
Jake Springfield considers himself a pretty average home cook. A New Orleans cinematographer who works on commercials, he’s the not the kind of guy who dabbles in homemade charcuterie or cultivates his...
10 Great New York City Rooftop Bars
It’s not always easy to love New York City in the summer. The heat waves aren’t much of a reprieve from bitter winters and rainy springs. But it’s finally rooftop bar season,...
A Gentle Welcome to West Africa, at Teranga in East Harlem
A drape of waxy leaves, a drip of vines: You have arrived at another latitude. Palms lean protectively, ready to offer shade, but none is needed here indoors at Teranga in East...
Albariño Finds Its Inner Beauty
Among the first wave of new grapes that came to define today’s era of diversity in wine was albariño, from the Rías Baixas region of Galicia in northwestern Spain.The wines were a...
Beverage Companies Embrace Recycling, Until It Costs Them
In the 10 states where consumers can collect a nickel or dime when they return an empty bottle or can, recycling rates for those containers are often significantly higher.CreditCreditVideo by Chang W....
Make This Pie!
Good morning. I’ll be on the road this weekend, driving north toward black flies and shooting stars. There’ll be yeasted doughnuts along the way, a lobster roll, an egg-and-white-cheese on an English...
