food + cooking
How to Eat a Patty
The best portable lunch in the world just might be the Jamaican patty, a flaky rectangular pastry commonly filled with a spicy beef mixture.
02.05.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- pastry,
- meat,
- restauarants,
- robert sietsema
food + cooking
A Cut Above
A tiny knife shop in the Midwest stays sharp after more than 100 years.
02.04.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- shopping,
- midwest,
- amy zavatto
food + cooking
Behind The Recipe: Quinoa Cakes with Eggplant-Tomato Ragù and Smoked Mozzarella
One of our food editors explains how she transformed whole-grain quinoa into a crispy, satisfying main dish.
02.01.08
food + cooking
Neck and Neck
Just when you think the offal-eating trend is out of control, you find a great new dish.
01.31.08
- Keywords
- ingredients,
- meat,
- chinese,
- restaurants,
- john willoughby
food + cooking
Tangling with Tagliatelle
Making pasta is not actually that big a deal. My husband agreed, politely overlooking the dusting of flour on the floor and the dried noodles stuck to my jeans.
01.31.08
- Keywords
- cooking + technique,
- pasta,
- italian,
- lesley porcelli
food + cooking
The Science of Celery Root
Surprising wisdom from a humble root vegetable.
01.29.08
- Keywords
- ingredients,
- vegetable,
- produce,
- matthew amster-burton
food + cooking
Belafonte and Bay Scallops
What’s the proper etiquette when a celebrity’s standing next to you in the fish market? When Harry Belafonte asks for half a pound of sea scallops, is it okay to protest?...
01.28.08
- Keywords
- ruth reichl,
- culinary culture,
- new york,
- seafood
food + cooking
What's the Beef?
Come Saturday afternoon, there's a line out the door at Fiore's House of Quality in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Jerseyites are waiting patiently for the Italian roast beef hero....
01.24.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- italian,
- sandwiches,
- meat,
- robert sietsema
food + cooking
Culinary Sanity
Food was nowhere near the heart of Peg Bracken’s greatness; what she gave the home cook was freedom.
01.23.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- cookbooks,
- laura shapiro
food + cooking
Almost-February Fruitcake
When you give these happy little loaves to your friends, they’ll be a lot more surprised and delighted than they would have been in December.
01.23.08
- Keywords
- john willoughby,
- cooking + technique