Drink Up ... or Else
By LIGAYA MISHAN
At Masha & the Bear in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Russian hospitality is on full display.
A simple dish goes heavy on the spice, with a pleasant, woodsy heat.
The sharp blade on a mandoline transforms bulky root vegetables into ethereal shavings. (Article plus video.)
At Masha & the Bear in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Russian hospitality is on full display.
Three bottles reflect Napa’s longtime commitment to cabernet made in classic style.
Gremolata adds zest to a brisket or osso buco, relieving the meat of its heady intensity. (Article plus video.)
Remedying Americans’ resistance to lamb with a juicy roast that gets help from anchovies and butter. (Article plus video.)
Mr. Smith, who helped found the Stash and Tazo tea companies, brought back novel varieties from his global travels and developed a wide following.
Andrew Carmellini and Min Kong create a fresh, natural and intuitive menu at Little Park.
A list of this year’s nominees in the restaurant and chef categories, which includes nods for Bâtard, Cosme, Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Per Se.
An Eataly-type market for French food is set to open in the financial district.
The bar industry is becoming more inventive with what it calls “large format” drinks that serve two to six customers and cost $45 to $150.
A vibrant linguine dish with a tomato sauce that gets added depth and intensity from the mussel broth.
Roundup, widely used in farming, is “probably” carcinogenic.
Cassidy Hallman says he depends on the best ingredients, even milling his own flour, for his pastas, pizzas, antipasti and main courses.
The recipe for the Jewish holiday treats traces back to Iraq.
The artist’s midcentury cookie press, which belonged to her mother, will be viewable in an installation in TriBeCa starting April 10.
The veteran restaurateur plans to retire, with John Doherty, a former executive chef at the Waldorf Astoria, taking over.
There’s a place for red radishes, cauliflower and carrots at the table for Easter and Passover.
Haldi, an Indian restaurant that opened in September, sets a notably elegant tone for Curry Hill.
Through a quarter-century of turning out consistent, elegant cabernets, Cathy Corison has resisted joining other Napa producers whose wines are becoming more alcoholic and sweeter.
The poet’s memoir recounts her romance with her late husband, but it also tells the story of their romance with food. In her Manhattan home, the tastes and scents of their shared life linger.
The writer, a new resident of the Bay Area, takes a joyful look at the region’s fresh fruit and vegetables.
Workers at Kum Gang San Restaurant said they often worked more than 16 hours with no overtime and were ordered to pick cabbage on their day off.
With fewer gimmicks, Eleven Madison Park still pulls out all the stops with food and service.
The Food and Drug Administration said that genetically engineered nonbrowning apples and bruise-resistant potatoes were as safe and nutritious as their conventional counterparts.
The French restaurant, owned by Georges and Marie-Thérèse Briguet for more than 50 years, has become a Midtown East neighborhood haunt though bills average nearly $100 per person.
This simple ingredient brings classic Roman dishes to life.
Pilot projects in 10 states will train recipients and offer services like transportation and child care, the Obama administration announced on Friday.
Chefs in New York are being seduced by the same nutty, rich and earthy flavors and high nutritional content that lured our ancestors from berries and antelopes.
The editor, author and well-trained cook has mastered the sharpening steel.
More rigorous inspections could cost millions of dollars for an already beleaguered industry, potentially driving more producers out of business, an analyst says.
With spring approaching, here’s a pasta offering with broccoli rabe that is emblematic of the season.
Erika Chou and Doron Wong of Yunnan Kitchen are finally ready to open their Northern Chinese counter for dumplings and noodle dishes at Brookfield Place.
The chef’s combination butcher shop-restaurant opens in the meatpacking district; a spring-loaded muddler; Passover and Easter meals in a restaurant; and more.
A new enforcement program would attempt to track fish from where they were caught to how they were shipped.
At Le Marécage in the East Village, the husband-and-wife team draws on French backgrounds from West Africa and the Caribbean.
In time for spring training, the beer panel rates 20 American lagers.
What does it take to capture those obscenely luscious food photos displayed in The New York Times? The photographer Andrew Scrivani sees food as a work of art.
White Oak Pastures in Georgia is the sole farm in the country with federally approved slaughterhouses for poultry and mammals.
Bowery Meat Company serves plenty of meat but insists it’s not a steakhouse.
“A consummately good cream of mussels soup,” in the words of the former New York Times food editor. (Article plus video.)
Two pretzels unearthed during a dig on the banks of the Danube in Regensburg could be more than 300 years old but are similar to ones available today, archaeologists said Thursday.
The Polo Bar has quickly become the place for the city’s elite to meet, and to dazzle.
Table etiquette has long served as a tool of exclusion, but some rules bring us closer together.
The noted cookbook editor gets a happy feeling from having a vase in her kitchen.
Amadeus Broger, a partner in Le Philosophe, in NoHo, has established another French restaurant, this one in Brooklyn.
Ms. Nash wrote two cookbooks about lowering the fat content in traditional African-American cooking and was food editor of the magazine Essence for 25 years.
Federal officials said that they found no abuse, but that scrutiny is lacking.
The classic Haitian dish of pork cubes simmered in chiles and citrus, then fried, can be hard to forget.
From Claudine and Jacques Pépin, a French cookbook for children; a spicy Basque sausage; a class to make ice cream and toffee; and more.
House of Inasal delivers straightforward Filipino comfort food in a stretch of Woodside, Queens, that has earned the nickname Little Manila.
After a recipe theft at Mr Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco, lines there for cruffins, the West Coast’s answer to New York’s cronut, seemed to grow even longer.
The venerable saloon, where Auden and Ginsberg drank, is back.
Condé Nast, which owns the magazine, last year began relocating some brands from 4 Times Square to 1 World Trade Center, which includes a 2,126-square-foot kitchen.
Foodbuy, the procurement unit of Compass Group, has begun selling Hampton’s Just Cookies and will soon add Just Mayo, both made without eggs.
The winemaker, known for his graceful and captivating Burgundys, celebrated the 65th vintage he has worked at what is now called Domaine Michel Lafarge.
Daniel Humm, Danny Bowien and April Bloomfield are among those who will cook at the pop-up at Blue Hill, which will serve dishes devised from food scraps.
A simple, sophisticated take on French cuisine.
Restaurants, home cooks and now a growing number of cities are embracing the belief that efficiency, composting and wasting less in the kitchen are just smart economics.
Retailers, beer makers and the provincial government are increasingly skeptical of the longstanding retail system for beer sales.
The New Nordic cuisine opens the way for Baska Snaps, Bjork Birch Liqueur and other Scandinavian-style drinks.
The chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi, partners in business and domestic affairs, are the owners and chefs of Via Carota in Greenwich Village.
Five experts spend 14 hours a day in a laboratory analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s meals for suspicious substances and ensuring that all his nutritional needs are met.
The chain said that within two years its domestic restaurants would no longer use birds treated with antibiotics “important to human medicine.”
Holding out hope that Jeremiah Tower, formerly of Chez Panisse, can rescue Tavern on the Green.
The owners of Somtum Der have opened another offshoot. This time, instead of Isan food, they’re serving home-style country Thai.
A vintage cookbook shop; hamantaschen, triangular pastries for the Jewish holiday; a cake stand that stands out; a new ramen spot at City Kitchen; and more.
Braised thighs with lemon and olives can be tweaked for various tastes from the region.
The vegetable-focused tasting menu at a new restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, props one unique flavor against the next.
At Izakaya in the East Village, the mission may be comfort food, but there is a reverence to its making, even in the minor dishes.
You probably have the ingredients for this winter warmer in your pantry now.
We asked chefs like David Kinch and Andy Ricker, as well as cookbook writers and food experts, for some of their most memorable experiences with Asia and its seafood.
The slow cooker need not produce mush. But many recipes call for too much cooking time.
Polpettone, or Italian meatloaf, is always well seasoned, made with care and served with gusto.
A recipe with chickpeas and chard is satisfying and light at the same time, as a vegetarian main course or as a side dish to roasted meats or fish. (Article plus video.)
The pastry chef Larissa Raphael’s confection is no harder to make than any other layer cake, but the precision of the ingredients makes it shine.
Chiles, herbs and vinegar add punch to this specialty from the Toluca region of Mexico.
A small but growing cohort of people is dedicated to making chocolate at home, a pursuit rooted in the proliferation of American-style, bean-to-bar chocolate.
Pastry puffs encasing chocolate ice cream can charm even an avowed nonchocoholic.
When making chocolate confections, let luscious be the beacon. Then bump up the chocolate content. (Article plus video.)
Corned beef and cabbage is so American. For something that may actually be served on Irish soil, look to a stew with lamb and potatoes.
When carefully and lovingly cooked with excellent ingredients, parmigiana is a fantastic dish, one worth learning how to make just right. (Article plus video.)
A Texas chili, like all great beef stews, combines the fragrant spices of a tagine, the succulent beefiness of pot roast and the slurpy heat of a goulash. (Article plus video.)
Making dosas may seem daunting, but as with pancakes, it gets easier after the first one.
Adding feta cheese to a saltwater brine adds punch to a simple roast chicken. (Article plus video.)
Home cooks would do well to explore the preserved vegetable preparation. Kimchi is not just pickled vegetables; it’s Korean soul food.
Olive oil and sea salt bring complexity and sophistication to this lemon bar recipe. (Article plus video.)
A version of lentil salad with caramelized root vegetables and brawny bacon, topped with sherry vinaigrette and fresh tangerine juice. (Article plus video.)
Nourishing stock is popping up on restaurant menus and replacing caffeine in the cups of Americans on the run.
A cookbook for new cooks, for uncertain cooks, for good cooks looking for simple inspiration.
The concept of fritto misto (assorted fried things) can yield a satisfying first course of bite-size morsels.
A thoroughly rinsed leek, kept from overcooking, can offer a pleasant surprise for winter meals.
The restaurant Dirt Candy has more space and a renewed mission: to create delicious vegetarian food and change attitudes, too.
Women are prominent in every part of the state’s food operation, from farms to restaurants.
While much of La Morada’s menu is taken up by tacos and quesadillas, a few dishes offer a taste of the “infinite gastronomy” that is Oaxacan cooking.
A movement of loosely affiliated cooks, farmers and activists is trying to reclaim the gastronomic paradise at their fingertips.
At Patacon Pisao, the headliner is a Venezuelan sandwich bookended by unripe fried plantains that don’t absorb flavor, but provide it.
The chefs Jimmy Lau and Nick Kim prepare elevated and memorable Japanese food at the new restaurant Shuko.
How healthy are the meals people actually order for themselves at Chipotle? We decided to try to find out.
The decrees governing bakeries play into a serious debate about whether the country can change its work rules and make other adjustments to counter high unemployment and a morose economy.
The offerings from the northern Thai menu can prove too tempting for the tables to handle.
A trip to West Africa by way of the Bronx at the restaurant Patina.
The chef who stands to achieve the most fame, with three stars, the highest designation, is Yannick Alléno of Le Pavillon Ledoyen.
The chef Enrique Olvera brings his approach to Mexican cuisine north of the border to New York.
The extemporaneous spirit of a Caribbean open-air barbecue joint is strong at LoLo’s Seafood Shack in Harlem.
Change happens, even at Danny Meyer’s restaurants, where it is considered a way to make things better.
Sariling Atin, whose name in Tagalog means “our own,” opened in April in Elmhurst, Queens, on a block once dominated by furniture showrooms.
The French Quarter restaurant, which was founded in 1946, is trying to overcome years of family dissent, and it starts with breakfast.
A number of small distillers are reimagining the container version of cocktails, with very different results than those of the 1970s.
The results of the Wine School exam on Langhe nebbiolo.
Great wine by its nature is mysterious, unpredictable and perhaps ultimately unknowable.
Jimmy Russell, the last of the remaining original master distillers of bourbon, has found cult status among whiskey aficionados.
The reprinted 1917 drinks guide by Tom Bullock, the first African-American bartender to publish a cocktail manual, touches on issues of race.
Here are some ways good sommeliers find the right wine for a customer out of hundreds or thousands of bottles.
The best Côte Chalonnaise reds convey what makes Burgundy ideal for pinot noir wines, and often at far more affordable rates.
Growers are going to court to be able to refrain from spraying their vines.
A selection of inexpensive bottles that won’t be found on the main highways of wine.
A library of more than 50 videos demonstrating simple skills that home cooks should master.
A new bill responds to accounts of mistreatment of farm animals used in federal experiments to help the meat industry.
In the past 50 years, meat has gotten less fatty and easier to chew — thanks in part to the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center. But the achievement has come at a steep cost to the lab’s animals.
The Queens kimchi belt has got to be the least explored, discussed and celebrated of the city’s great ethnic-food districts. In and near Flushing, hundreds of restaurants serve classic Korean dishes.
From Bâtard to Russ & Daughters Cafe, the restaurants that brought a fresh perspective to the dining scene this year.
The favorites among the corners, counters and places to eat (or slurp or gulp) standing up that Ligaya Mishan reviewed in the past year.
The 20 recipes Cooking users saved to their recipe boxes most often this year.
Highlights from the year in food, fashion and style, film, theater and dance, art, music, television, video games and books, as chosen by the editors of The New York Times.
The top videos of the year range from one man’s incredible tale of surviving an ISIS massacre to a charming — and very kid-friendly — dinner experiment.
We’ve scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states (and D.C. and Puerto Rico). These are our picks for the feast. Dig in, then tell us yours.
Interactive map of health violations at restaurants in New York
The number of serious coffee shops in New York has exploded. Enter your address to find the shops closest to you.
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