Good morning. Happy Mother’s Day to all who serve. Mine loathed the holiday. She called it a conspiracy of the Hallmark-florist industrial complex. Still, I think she was always secretly thrilled when one of us children cobbled together something delicious for her to eat or gave her a hand-crayoned card. Which is to say: Reach…
To be completely honest, I don’t care that much whether chicken meat is white or dark. For me, it’s all about the skin. (Well, it’s also about the feet, tail and innards, but that’s a newsletter for another time.) It doesn’t even have to be crispy skin — I like it steamed and chewy, brittle…
Good morning. I got lucky last week, down in the Florida Keys. Friends dropped off some cobia they’d caught offshore, and we grilled it crusty to eat with tartar sauce and a salad. It was sweet and mild and meaty, a perfect end to a day spent in the basins north of Big Coppitt Key…
Butter yellow has been applied to a wide spread of items lately: cocktail dresses, jeans, jackets, hair clips, handbags and stand mixers. It has been slathered onto the walls of restaurants and home kitchens, and has oozed onto red carpets and the stages of major pop-music tours. Like the dairy product the color is named…
