In spite of a shared Mediterranean heritage, Scandinavian tastes lure us in as winter descends. Celebrate anything with this menu. It could be Christmas, the New Year or just an excuse to get everyone around a table.
In a guest appearance on APM's The Dinner Party, Lynne Rossetto Kasper tells a tale of burning negligees, serving wine to beer drinkers, the impossibility of cooking complex dinners in a New York kitchen, and a couple different sources of tears.
You know where you have to eat when you go to New York City? Go across the river to Brooklyn, where the cooks are young and trying all kinds of things. Two of them are the Sussman brothers, Eli and Max. Max is a chef at Roberta's in Bushwick and Eli is at Mile End Deli.
Talk about having all the fun. David Lebovitz is a pastry chef living in pastry chef heaven. He's based in Paris. His blog, Living the Sweet Life in Paris, can drive you either to the kitchen or to buy a plane ticket. His latest book is Ready for Dessert.
When it comes to entertaining ideas, we go to Sally Schneider's site, The Improvised Life. Sally is the ultimate improviser, as a cook and as a curator of design ideas. Her eye for repurposing is infallible.
Writer Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic, raised poor in New Jersey and is now a professor of creative writing at MIT. He holds a Pulitzer, a MacArthur Genius Grant and an armload of other awards.
One of the most beautiful places on earth, the rice terraces of Yuanyang, are a site to behold. Beyond their striking beauty, they are also an incredible example of sustainability.
Steve Jenkins might be the most highly opinionated cheesemonger in the country. Then again, he's also the most respected cheesemonger in the country. He recommends some expensive cheeses, but also a few you can get in the local dairy aisle.
Sarah Wu teaches speech at a grammar school in Chicago, and she always brings her lunch. Well, one day she didn’t. Instead, she went to the school cafeteria for a student lunch, and what followed was a year of blogging that became a book.
John Moe gives us recommendations on food apps, in part because he used to host Marketplace Tech Report. Also, it's because his office is right next to ours. He recommends The Professional Chef, Big Oven and Foodspotting.
Christina Tosi runs one of the break-out bakeries in New York City, Momofuku Milk Bar. You go there to taste saltine panna cotta, Fruity Pebbles, Christmas cookies, and an apple pie cake people rave over.
Riesling can be a versatile pairing with a variety of meals. These days you don't need to import from Germany to find a great bottle. Wine expert Stuart Pigott has the insider scoop on great Riesling from Washington State to the Finger Lakes.
A taste of the U.K. might be the bit of inspiration you need when brainstorming holiday gifts from the kitchen. Indian chutneys and Turkish delight are just a few of the sweet and spicy creations in the repertoire of former rock 'n' roll caterer and author Annie Rigg.
James Freeman’s new book, The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee, covers every way to get every nuance out of the coffee bean. Freeman founded the Blue Bottle Coffee Company in San Francisco, but the place he learned these coffee techniques was Japan, which is more commonly known for its tea.
At the close of each year, we gather up a list of our favorite books for cooks to post on the site. That list serves as a great gift guide, but it also represents what we each consider to be among our favorite cookbooks of the year, and it tends to say a lot about our personal tastes.
How bamboozled are we by conflicting health information? Figuring out what to eat isn't getting easier, so one expert worth checking in with is Dr. Andrew Weil. He's researched nutrition worldwide and he tracks the latest science.
Dessa is a singer and songwriter, a rapper and a poet, who travels constantly with the rap collective Doomtree. The image of music stars on the road is pretty glamorous: star chef suppers, special treats. But in the real world, how does an indie rap queen eat on the road?
Making edible gifts for friends and family is a quick and inexpensive way to share something sweet during the holidays. Now if only we had the time. The pros at Liddabit Sweets have four quick, easy and fun candy recipes to share.
Lizz Winstead is the creator of The Daily Show and the author of Lizz Free or Die. In this installment of The Key 3, she shares with Lynne Rossetto Kasper the stories behind three of her favorite recipes: a fettuccine from Mario Batali, rosemary and garlic lamb chops, and spritz cookies.
Hosting a dinner party can be hard work, especially when a buffet is involved. Noelle Carter shares a few tips and tricks used by caterers and frequent hosts to maintain order at the buffet table, keep waste down, and look good doing it.
For those of us who live in the Midwest, it can be nearly impossible to get fresh-tasting, locally-grown vegetables during the winter months. So farmers are taking a cue from nature and freezing summer vegetables in order to keep their CSA shares going year-round.
In countries where wines have been made forever, you wouldn't think there would be surprises. I mean, if a piece of dirt could give you a great grape that led to a great bottle, it would have been exploited ages ago. But it’s not so.
Markus Bachmann, a French horn player from Austria, has created a fermentation system that infuses the music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and rare orchestra and jazz recordings into wine.
When we decided to make a video about farmed bluefin tuna, it was with trepidation. This is not the perfect fish; it can hardly be considered sustainable (they eat a lot of other fish).
