Food and Things

Every time you cook an authentic Italian dish, you probably have Marcella Hazan to thank.
Years ago, Italian food in the U.S. equated to red sauce Italian-American dishes like spaghetti and meatballs. Hazon’s iconic cookbooks, beginning with the 1973 classic, The Classic Italian Cookbook, introduced Americans to traditional Italian cooking much in the way that [...]

If you’re dying to display your culinary skills to a mass TV audience, here’s your chance. These days, the Food Network is more foodtainment than serious cooking, but if being a culinary celeb is your dream, then here’s your chance:So You Wanna be a TV Star?
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If you’re a Sephardic Jew, you get to eat relatively healthy holiday fare on Rosh Hashanah. If you’re Ashkenazi, you have bloat and acid reflux to look forward to following your New Year’s meal.
But tradition is tradition. And if you want to include some elements that your Grandma might recognize, here’s a recipe for [...]

I like getting fruits, veggies, meat and fish from farm markets. Fairway, Zabar’s and Whole Foods do a good job of taking care of my other food needs .
But for those of you with a yen to harvest the bounty produced by our very own Central Park–epazote and mugwort are among the delicacies that [...]