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Times Top 5: Interactive Picnic Basket for Inspired Picnics
From the NY Times Dining Section 07.02.08

We're on the same wavelength with the Times today; we're talking about grilling, and they're talking about picnics. Mark Bittman returns to his famously popular lists of quick dishes and pulls out 101...

Times Top 5: A Pattern for Sour Drinks
From the NY Times Dining Section 06.25.08

This week the Times dining section has a special issue - it's all about drinks! We were hard pressed to choose just five favorite things this week, but we managed. Here are our top picks, including so...

Times Top Five: Green Garlic and Banana Popsicles
From the NY Times Dining Section 06.18.08

Ready for our top five favorite moments in this week's New York Times dining section? Ready, set, here we go... ...

Times Top Five: Meat Gives Way To Veggies
From the NY Times Dining Section 06.11.08

Ready for our top five favorite things from today's New York Times dining section? Let's start with the meat sculptures from Mark Bittman's piece - oh wait, they're really mushrooms... ...

What Are Your Recipe Deal Breakers?
From the NY Times Dining Section 6.04.08

We all have recipe deal breakers. You know, those things that make us stop reading the recipe, put it down, and promptly pull out the next one. For a long time one of those deal breakers for us was, "...

Spinach Salad and Baby Artichokes: Top 5 from the Times
From the NY Times Dining Section 06.04.08

We loved this week's Times Dining section. It just felt... spring. Here are our top five favorite things about this week's New York Times Dining Section, starting with an exotic version of spinach sal...

In the New York Times: Saul Zabar Turns 80

For any food lover living in New York, Zabar's is one of those institutions we naively believe has always been around and will always be around. Its crowded aisles and barking counterpeople seem like ...

Yellow Cake with Chocolate Icing
From the NY Times Dining Section 05.28.08

Our favorite piece from The New York Times Dining section this week was Alex Witchel's Feed Me column. She rhapsodized over the pleasures of simple layer cake, frosted with chocolate icing, especially...

Ribs Under the Broiler
From the NY Times Dining Section 05.21.08

Our neighbors have pulled out the grill, but we're grill-less for now, and July seems a long time away. What do you do when you have no grill? Mark Bittman comes to the meat-lovers' rescue with tips ...

Kick Off the Season With Spring and Summer Cocktails: Spiked Boba from The New York Times

Memorial Day is a week from today; we can scarcely believe it! To celebrate the informal beginning of the summer season we are giving you a warm weather cocktail recipe every day this week. We'll lead...

Look! Play With Your Food!

Have you seen this yet? The New York Times Dining Section has a whole piece on knife skills, vegetable carving, and food art. These knife skills are way out of our league... ...

Gardens in the City Go to Market
From the NY Times Dining Section 05.07.08

The New York Times' Dining Section this week felt like spring. Our favorite piece was this article and slideshow on city gardens: Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market. Urban community g...

Rare Moon and Stars Watermelon
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.30.08

After a heavy Eating Out section last week, the Times returns with a fabulous Dining In lineup of articles in today's Dining Section. We were arrested by the photo above of heirloom moon and stars wa...

Blogging the NY Times: Confusing Reports on Commodity Crops

With rising food costs, subsidized US corn glutting the market, and the dollar becoming further devalued, we've all been getting a crash course in Economics 101 these past few months. But the New York...

Chocolate Pudding and Risotto for the Pope
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.23.2008

Chocolate pudding! Melissa Clark goes on an all-out quest to discover the chocolate pudding of her dreams in her piece You Call That Pudding, Grandma?. She comes back with not one but four decadent re...

Passover Roast Beef, Spicy Cupcakes and Oyster Hash
Recipes from the New York Times Dining Section 04.16.08

There is so much great food in the Times Dining section today. Some of our favorites were from the piece with Susie Fishbein, a much-loved and respected kosher cook whose cookbooks are bestsellers and...

What Does Your Breakfast Cereal Say About Your Vote?
News from the New York Times Dining Section 04.16.08

Lots, according this article in the New York Times Dining section today on microtargeting, or the use of very precise bits of data to target voters. Turns out that a skillful pollster can figure out a...

Weekend Reading: Greek Yogurt Revival

Are Greeks better cooks than the French? Michael Symon, chef of Lolita in Cleveland, says so, and attributes it to the Greek love of their particularly thick yogurt. Higher in fat, protein, (and flavo...

Elegant Lettuce-Wrapped Fish
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.09.2008

Quiet day for cooks in the New York Times' Dining Section but there are a few good recipes lurking in its mainly restaurant-driven content this week. Quickly and Easily, a Touch of Elegance - Mar...

All About Your Microwave
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.02.2008

The New York Times' Dining Section takes on the much-maligned microwave oven, and Mark Bittman wonders aloud if it ought to be renamed the "the whiz-bang steaming oven." Vegetables and steamed puddin...

Weekend Reading: Cheese, Seafood, and Intractable Italians

One of the great things about Italy is they love making rules. And they obey very few. That bit from Robert Trachtenberg's essay in the New York Times Sunday Magazine made us laugh. He defiantly flie...

Cooking from the 99-Cent Store: Eric Ripert Goes Frugal
From the NY Times Dining Section 03.26.08

The lead story in the Dining section in the New York Times this week reflects the current state of gloom and doom in the financial media; are we headed for recession? Are food prices rising? Will we a...

Fried Meat Kreplach and Other Forgotten Recipes
From the NY Times Dining Section 03.26.08

Today's Dining section in the New York Times was a doozy! There was enough good content to pack out a magazine - let alone a weekly section. There's so much that we want to talk about it for the rest...

Suvir Saran's Mortar and Pestle
From the NY Times Dining Section 03.26.08

We just have to direct you to Florence Fabricant's picks in the New York Times dining section this week. She has some great finds. Our favorite was this mortar and pestle from Suvir Saran's American M...

Easter Cake and Fizzy Drinks
From the NY Times Dining Section 03.19.08

Easter Is for Baking, Too: OK, here's the deal - to those of us from a Slavic background, you really don't need to tell us that Easter is for baking. We're used to a full-out festival of carbohydrates...

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