As a boy in Morocco, Mourad Lahlou, the chef and owner of the restaurants Mourad and Aziza in San Francisco, was sometimes tasked with fetching […]
Category: Food
Do You Need a Lazy Susan? Maybe Not. But They Make Meals a Lot More Fun.
The simple rotating serving tray has gone by many names over the years: dumbwaiter, butler’s assistant and, most famously, lazy Susan. Accounts of its origins […]
A Vast Mexican Market Has Become a Whole New Scene in Orange County
On a summer weekend, mid-heat wave, the promising smell of clean fryer oil drifted through a parking lot in Costa Mesa, Calif. Inside Mercado González, […]
The (Quick) Dinners I Wait All Year to Make
Hi, everyone, Ali here, filling in for Emily Weinstein! I develop recipes for New York Times Cooking — maybe you’ve seen or even made my […]
The Frenchette Team Breathes New Life Into Le Veau d’Or
Le Veau d’Or, an Upper East Side restaurant that dates from 1937 and has been closed for five years, reopens next Tuesday with a sensitive […]
The Eleven Madison Park Hospitality Guru Who Worked on ‘The Bear’ Opens Up
Until Season 3 of “The Bear,” only viewers who understood restaurant hospitality at its highest levels could spot the Will Guidara Effect. Mr. Guidara was […]
In New York, a Lunch With Extravagant Jewelry and Local Dim Sum
When they were young, the jewelry and accessories designer Rolly Robínson moved with their family to the tree-dense outskirts of Sevierville, Tenn., a small city […]
Want a Cake to Impress? Make This Vietnamese Classic.
Last May, Hannah Pham hosted her mother and her mother’s three sisters in Los Angeles, where she was working with her husband, the comedian and […]
Cold Noodles With Zucchini Because Yikes, This Heat
I look forward to the first zucchini of the season almost as much spring’s first asparagus. Taut, crunchy and with an almost grassy taste, the […]
How a Death Doula Throws a Dinner Party
As a child, Rebecca Illing would spend vacations with her parents and brother, Alex, at Paço da Glória, a gothic mansion turned guesthouse in Portugal’s […]