As it hits 70 degrees here in New York today, I realized that this recipe is going to be as out of season as your snow boots if I don’t get it out fast.  And although I don’t want to be the…

I thought about throwing my Chicken Wing recipe into the mix in time for Super Bowl Sunday.  But then I was inundated with Wings recipes: 10 in an email from RecipeZaar, another 8 developed by my heroine, Grace Parisi, in this month’s Food and Wine. …

       Very often, when I go out to eat, I know in advance what I am going to order.  I associate a restaurant with a dish I’ve had there before and I look forward to it.  This has been going on at The…

       The food pantry that our church sponsors is called The Brown Bag Program and provides lunch for about 80 people a day.  It costs about $3.25 to fill a bag and, like every other charity in the City, we’ve been feeling the pinch…

I love a good braise almost as much as I love a good Pork Chop.  And in a November ‘09 column in the New York Times, Melissa Clark put the two together to create this dish.  If you follow Melissa at all, you know she…

 This weekend for the first time in what seems like months, we were finally able to walk anywhere without feeling that we were in a race against the cold.   So we jumped on the opportunity to visit the High Line. This is an only-in-New York…

             When I want to cook something as well known as this dish, I love to haul out the cookbooks that contain the recipe and read all of them before I do anything else.  Almost inevitably, when it is a signature…

I remember when my Mother got her first Cuisinart in the 70s.  They were about the same price they are now but in ’70s dollars, they weren’t cheap.  But my Mother was notorious for buying any labor-saving device that would get her out of the…

About the only thing I miss about my last job is the travel. I really enjoy getting out of New York, seeing something different, learning something new.  So I was pleased when a recent assignment took me to Baltimore, Maryland, a city I’ve been to many…

           I discovered this wonderfully different paté almost by accident as you will read in this story. But in casting about for our 12 days of Christmas recipes, I realized it’s just the kind of dish that has Holiday written all…

  Above: The ingredients of a great curry even look beautiful.              Indian curries are a favorite of mine.  While the Indians eat them to keep cool in their hot climate, I eat them to keep warm in ours—especially with this winter’s record-breaking low…

        This is emphatically not your 30 minute dinner.  It is one of the great treasures of Italian cuisine.  And despite the length of time it takes, this version is not entirely labor-intensive.  A great part of the time is the slow simmering…

         Restaurant Week in New York City is getting stranger and stranger.  First off, it lasted for 2 weeks before ending its run last Sunday.  When it started, the prix fixe made infinite good sense.  In the 1999, lunch cost $19.99. In 2007, it…

There are nights when only a bowl of proper Italian sausage pasta will do. Not a timid version. Not a sauce that whispers. I’m talking about wide ribbons of pappardelle tangled with savory salsiccia, kissed with garlic, and finished with a snowfall of Parmigiano Reggiano…