After Culinary and Literary Acclaim, She’s Moving to the Woods

“Ms. Regan is a 40-year-old chef from Indiana with a Michelin star who last summer published “Burn the Place,” perhaps the definitive Midwest drunken-lesbian food memoir. On its cover, the chef David Chang calls her one of the best chefs he has ever known.”
The chef Iliana Regan created a hit Chicago restaurant and wrote a tough, award-winning memoir. But her real dream lives in a cabin in northern Michigan.
By Kim Severson

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Is Restaurant Noise a Crime? Our Critic Mounts a Ringing Defense

By Pete Wells

WIRECUTTER

Organize Your Fridge (and Keep It Neat)

A handful of simple items can help you organize your fridge the way the pros do, to avoid wasting both food and time.
By Marguerite Preston

Poach perfect: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for buttery prawns, spicy chicken soup and ginger rhubarb

Butter-poached prawns and celeriac

Spicy chicken and cabbage soup

Clotted cream and ginger mousse with rooibos-poached rhubarb

A GOOD APPETITE

A Milky Cake Where More Is More

Adding dulce de leche and two kinds of coconut milk to a tres leches cake makes it supremely creamy and rich.

Cinnamon is sprinkled over this seis leches cake.
By Melissa Clark

EAT

End Your Meal Elegantly With Candied Oranges

A cold candied orange.
By Gabrielle Hamilton

WINE SCHOOL

Searching for the Distinctive Character of California Syrah

By Eric Asimov