You can treat your Christmas blues by treating yourself to some comfort food at a discounted price. In Japan, Christmas is the most romantic time of the year. Sure, Japan celebrates Valentine’s Day too, but that’s more a day for initial confessions of love (and an excuse to eat chocolate). Christmas, though, especially Christmas Eve, is when established couples in Japan spend the night snuggling and whispering sweet nothings to one another as their passion easily wards off the winter […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM OUR COMFORT FOOD FEATURE Photo courtesy of Erin Clarke Milwaukee transplant Erin Clarke’s cooking blog, Well Plated by Erin (wellplated.com), is replete with easy-to-follow, affordable- to-make recipes for classic comfort cuisine, but with a catch. Instead of the typical gobs of heavy ingredients, Clarke lightens up the dishes without sacrificing flavor. The Wichita, Kansas, native, who draws inspiration from her grandmothers’ cooking, started blogging 10 years ago. Her very first post, a green chile […]
20 Dec 2021 — Consumer appetite to experiment with food has never been higher, driven by the restrictions that COVID-19 has brought around. Previously well-traveled consumers have become accustomed to increased authenticity in their food and are once again open to traveling through taste. International flavors are coming to the fore, and these factors combined make fertile ground for global cuisines to germinate and blossom in markets they have not previously entered. FoodIngredientsFirst speaks with key players in […]
High cholesterol is often caused by eating fatty food or being overweight. It occurs when you have too much of a fatty substance called cholesterol in your blood. Fortunately, many people can lower their cholesterol by eating healthily, and making lifestyle changes. If you have been advised to make dietary changes, there are a number of things to consider. Some people may choose certain alternatives to cook their foods, for example by shunning animal fats in favour of olive oil […]
Shepherd’s pie, traditionally a way to use up leftover meat, is a delicious and comforting dish. Comfort foods are often associated with eating that’s unhealthful, but that doesn’t have to be the case. It all comes down to finding the right balance in your ingredients and being mindful of portion sizes. More:Guests won’t believe these chocolate truffles are made with dates and black beans More:Impress holiday guests with a dessert starring roasted pears and candied pecans More:Lots of latke love […]
TikTok is opening ghost kitchens across the country to serve dishes made popular by the social media app. A total of 300 TikTok restaurant locations are planned for March, with 1,000 expected by the end of 2022. TikTok said it plans to reinvest its profits into food creators and culinary talent on the platform. Loading Something is loading. For die-hard foodies who love scrolling through cooking videos on social media, TikTok is serving up a new ghost kitchen restaurant concept […]
New Jerseyans may remember Paterson native Victor Cruz for scoring touchdowns as a member of the New York Giants, but they’ll soon have reason to know him for more than just football. Krystal Restaurants, a southern-based fast-food chain, announced a partnership with Cruz that will bring the eatery’s first locations to New Jersey. There will be five restaurants called “Victor Cruz’s Krystal,” and they’ll be in the area by the end of 2023, debuting in Cruz’s hometown of Paterson. The […]
Phew, it’s been a wild year, but New York Times Cooking readers still found their way into their kitchens. (Cooking is a great escape, and, despite the news, you do have to eat.) Simple, quick dishes like Ali Slagle’s five-ingredient cucumber-avocado salad and Hetty McKinnon’s cauliflower piccata dominated our list of most popular recipes, but project recipes like Claire Saffitz’s croissants and Josef Centeno’s birria de res also made an appearance. Below is a list of the 20 most popular […]
Last month, I crowded into a wooden booth at NoLIta’s Thai Diner with the chefs Kia Damon, Andrés Tonatiuh Galindo Maria, Chintan Pandya and Missy Robbins; the pastry chef Melissa Weller; and the T writer-at-large Ligaya Mishan for a languorous weekday lunch. Between slurps of fantastic khao soi and tom yum soup, we compiled a list — similar to others T has done on architecture, interiors and art — of the 25 essential things to eat in New York City right […]
Cassandria Campbell, MCP ’11, traces her interest in food to her first summer job working with the Food Project on farms in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Roxbury, the Boston neighborhood where she grew up. “I really enjoyed that experience of seeing things grow,” she recalls, “and I appreciated how much change it was creating in Roxbury by bringing people together and turning vacant lots into productive urban farms.” It wasn’t until she moved back to Roxbury after graduate school that she […]
