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"You Don't Get Fat on Food You Pray Over"
Quotes from The New York Times Magazine

In this week's Times Sunday Magazine, the annual Food Issue, Michael Pollan shares his favorite reader-submitted food rules. We love this one for its sweet sentiment—no matter what your religious co...

The Cocktails of Mad Men
The New York Times 8.12.09

Mad Men returns this Sunday. Do you have your Manhattans, Old Fashioneds, and Pink Squirrel Martinis ready?...

All You Need on Vacation is a Cast-Iron Skillet
The New York Times 8.5.09

And, despite the charming photo above, we mean one cast-iron skillet. That's the opinion of writer Jhumpa Lahiri (author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake), who gets nostalgic about vacation...

Look! Top-Only Pie Crust of Overlapping Shapes

In the past 24 hours, we've read two articles about this technique—one from Mark Bittman in yesterday's Times and one in Bon Appétit. Must be a trend. Both articles insist this method of p...

A Look at the Food Styling Behind Julie & Julia
The New York Times 7.29.09

More Julie & Julia! We know, we've written about this movie more than once, and it hasn't even come out yet. But the Times has an interesting article about something that may play a bigger role th...

Bored of Salad? 101 Recipes to Get You Inspired
The New York Times

We have to hand it to Mark Bittman and the Times. It's got to be hard to come up with 101 salad variations, but honestly, most of the ones on their list sound refreshingly inventive. Plus, there's ...

An Almost-Eggless Frittata
The New York Times

We talk a lot about frittatas around here; they're cheap, use up bits of leftover ingredients, and are a quick, easy weeknight meal. But we always follow pretty much the same formula. In the Minimalis...

Great Idea! Granola with Olive Oil
The New York Times 7.10.09

Did you see Melissa Clark's most recent recipe in The New York Times: Olive Oil Granola With Dried Apricots and Pistachios? And if you did, did you swoon straight away like we did? ...

A New Cut of Meat for the Grill
The New York Times

Well, it's not completely new to us. Sara Kate wrote about this cut of meat in her post on Korean Barbecued Short Ribs. It's called flanken, and it's cut from the same cloth as short ribs, but it's th...

How to Cook the Perfect Burger
The New York Times

Yes, we have talked about this before. We've written about making perfectly juicy burgers and how to build one (complete with diagram). But this weekend being a burger-noshing holiday, we thought more...

A Lexicon of Cocktail Terms (And a Recipe for a Gin Julep)
The New York Times

We've been promoting our own well-stocked inventory of cocktail recipes lately, so this article in today's Times was right up our alley. It's a list of terms, some of them as basic as ice, but ther...

Lobster Tower and Pumpkin Soup: Readers' Wedding Food
The New York Times

Have you peeked at the slideshow of wedding food from New York Times readers? No? It's worth taking a look! The Times put out a call for unique or homemade wedding food from their readers' weddings,...

National Food Roundup: Father's Day Grilling
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 6.17.09

If there were an official Father's Day dish, it would probably involve steak, on the grill. We've got several ways to prepare it below, plus some salad ideas and recipes to balance out dad's meal. ...

Rooftop Gardens in the City
The New York Times

As part of My Great Outdoors, we've seen some rooftop gardens from you urban dwellers who don't have a backyard. Well, The New York Times is showing off some ambitious city gardens today—and one's f...

Chicken Bog from a Sustainable Farm in Georgia
The New York Times

Never heard of chicken bog? It's a traditional South Carolina dish made from chicken, sausage, onion, and rice—the whole thing a bit soggy and stewy (hence the "bog"). This version is a souped up on...

One More Topping for Strawberries
The New York Times

Bittman makes a good point in today's Times dining section. Strawberries are best left alone when it comes to dessert, which is why we see shortcake and Eton Mess—where fresh strawberries are allowe...

Canning in the City
The New York Times 5.27.09

It's not really news that canning fruits and vegetables is on the rise. We've talked about preserving and pickling here and here and here. But The New York Times Dining section has some more encourage...

Tips for Grilling Over a Wood Fire
The New York Times

For most of us, grilling means firing up a gas grill or lighting a pile of charcoal. But in today's dining section of The New York Times, one writer is arguing for the more primitive (and tasty) act o...

Ever Heard of a Crespelle?

The Temporary Vegetarian is talking about them in The New York Times today. Here's a hint: Emma encouraged us to make them last weekend......

Is "Snapping" Asparagus the Best Way to Trim Them?

Not necessarily, according to Harold McGee. For his "Curious Cook" column in The New York Times, he snapped 130 spears and found that, even after they were steamed, a third of those asparagus were sti...

Tom Colicchio Cooks in a Rental Galley Kitchen
The New York Times

Here's some inspiration: the head judge of Top Chef and owner of several very successful Manhattan restaurants cooks at home in a rental kitchen that probably looks a lot like some of yours. He says i...

Cheap Meat: Of Beef Chuck Deckle and Lamb T-Bones

The New York Times is broadening its meat horizons today, with an introduction to some of the best bargain cuts at the supermarket. Chefs are in on the gig—serving less elegant cuts of lamb as posh-...

A Tale of Two Stuffed Artichokes

In The New York Times today, Melissa Clark writes about her ex-mother-in-law's Italian stuffed artichokes. It's a dish we've made and shared with you before, only ours has one distinct difference. Rea...

Southern Dilemma: Homemade Rolls or Sister Schubert's?

We are going to try to keep our cool here. But the sight of that plastic-wrapped aluminum tin of yeast rolls to the left just about sends us over the edge. We can't buy them in New York (although we h...

Want a Cheap and Eco-Friendly Dinner? Try Mussels.

When we're thinking about cooking an inexpensive meal, we waltz right past the seafood counter. Fish and budgets usually don't mix. But in an article in The New York Times, Melissa Clark reminds us th...