The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain
A new, unauthorized biography reveals intimate, often raw, details of the TV star’s life, including his tumultuous relationship with the Italian actor Asia Argento. And it’s drawing criticism from many of his friends and family.
By KIM SEVERSON

Federal Government’s $20 Billion Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming
The techniques are a cornerstone of the Agriculture Department’s approach to addressing a warming planet, but it is unclear whether more widespread deployment of such methods can truly reverse the effects of climate change.
By LINDA QIU

How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future.
Scientists working in research groves, like one in Nova Scotia, are developing your favorite new apple variety.
By ELIZABETH LANDAU

Dragon Fruit Is Showing Up All Over. So Why Are Farmers Leaving the Business?
The flavor is a fixture on drink menus. But competition from abroad has South Florida growers rethinking their commitment to a once-lucrative crop that requires a lot of investment and care.

Ruben Sanchez and Elide Santos, one of his nieces, were among the first purveyors of dragon fruit in Homestead. This year, they tried selling their fruit from a roadside stand and to out-of-state distributors.
By Christina Morales

Claudia Roden: 20 of her best recipes from a 50-year career
Allan Jenkins, compiled by Molly Tait-Hyland, recipes by Claudia Roden

Crumbs for Dinner, in the Best Possible Way
Pasta with garlicky bread crumbs, eggplant and tomatoes is everything you want in a colorful weeknight dinner.

Inspired by pangrattato, a classic Italian garnish, this weeknight pasta is topped with umami-rich anchovy bread crumbs.
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Eggplant Pasta With Anchovy Bread Crumbs and Capers

The Crew Can Have a Little Coconut Cake
These diminutive Filipino treats are fluffy, fragrant and perfect to share with friends.

By LIGAYA MISHAN
Recipe: Mini Bibingka

Want to Be a Better Cook? Trust Your Senses.
Paying attention to sight, smell, sound and feel will steer you in ways that simply following a recipe cannot, Yewande Komolafe writes.

This crème caramel features a gently set custard with the right amount of warmth from toasted spices and sharpness from caramelized sugar.
By Yewande Komolafe
Recipe: Spiced Crème Caramel

THE POUR
Two-Buck Chuck: Wine of the People or a Cultural Wedge?
Fred Franzia built a cult following with his Trader Joe’s wine, but it comes at a cost to the wine business.
By ERIC ASIMOV

In Vienna, Taking to the Hills for Wine
In the fall, the wine taverns set among the city’s vineyards known as heurigen and buschenschanken offer the perfect combination of outdoor activity, food and drink.
By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

When in Chicago, don’t swallow:
Revealed: the ‘shocking’ levels of toxic lead in Chicago tap water
By Erin McCormick, Aliya Uteuova and Taylor Moore with photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis

Our 50 Favorite Restaurants of 2022
The places in America we love most right now.

Petite León Minneapolis The chef Jorge Guzmán was born and raised in the Yucatán, and that region’s cuisine animates a number of his arresting dishes, including al pastor pork collar, charred broccolini with mole verde and ancho chile-black garlic marinated bavette steak with a bright piquillo pepper sauce. The aesthetic here is inventive and comfortingly familiar (yes, there is a Caesar salad and a fancy cheeseburger), and it extends to the cocktails of Travis Serbus, a local bar veteran and Mr. Guzmán’s business partner. They opened Petite León in the fall of 2020, unsure what the future held. What emerged is a sophisticated restaurant as inviting as a corner saloon. BRETT ANDERSON

Buldak, the Fiery Korean Chicken Dish, Gets the Pizza Treatment
J. Kenji López-Alt pushes the limits of Korean fire chicken as a topping for a New York style pizza. It’s like barbecue chicken pizza, but hotter.

Buldak chicken and pizza are both fantastic party foods. This recipe combines the two
By J. KENJI LÓPEZ-ALT
Recipe: Buldak Pizza (Korean Fire Chicken Pizza)

Vegetarian Recipes for Cozy Days
Soups, stews and comforting, feel-good foods for after a storm.
By TEJAL RAO

Dinner in Seven Ingredients (or Even Fewer!)
These 24 recipes show you how to make the very most of very little.
By KRYSTEN CHAMBROT

16 Soups Our Food Staff Cooks on Repeat
Cozy season is almost here. Greet it with a bowl of French onion, vegetable, chicken noodle or potato soup.
By Nikita Richardson

A GOOD APPETITE
For More Delicious Beans, Just Add Mussels
Garlic, olive oil and rosemary make the best broth for this fast one-pot meal.

Red pepper flakes add a little heat to white beans and mussels simmered in a garlicky broth.
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Mussels With White Beans, Garlic and Rosemary

In the Department of We Can All Breathe Easier Now:
FRONT BURNER
The New York City Ban on Foie Gras Is Delayed
A lawsuit halts the city’s prohibition of the delicacy for now, David Joachim releases a new version of his “Food Substitutions Bible,” Steelport Knife Co. has a new bread knife with heft, and more.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

The Second Coming of the Appletini
As nostalgia grips drinkers, bartenders are giving vilified ’90s concoctions like the lychee martini and the lemon drop an upgrade — and ushering in a new martini era.

Cocktail bars across the country, including Sweet Liberty in Miami, are offering reimagined versions of 1990s martini staples, like the lychee martini and lemon drop.
By ROBERT SIMONSON

Fred Franzia, 79, Dies; Upended Wine Industry With Two-Buck Chuck
An unorthodox businessman, he took on the wine industry and its high markups, selling wine at prices many families could afford every day.

Fred Franzia in 2007 with a bottle of his inexpensive Charles Shaw wine. When asked how he could sell wine for less than a bottle of water, he replied, “They’re overcharging for the water — don’t you get it?”
By Priya Krishna

T WANDERLUST
Inside Trondheim, One of Europe’s Northernmost Creative Hubs
From Michelin chefs to fashion plates, the Nordic city comes into its own.

The climate-adapted harbor promenade at Brattøra Open Space in Trondheim was created by the nature-based design studio SLA and the Pir II architecture firm. The pier overlooks Trondheim fjord, with views of Munkholmen, or Monk’s islet, in the distance.
By ALEXANDER LOBRANO

FOOD MATTERS
Why Are We Obsessed With Jiggling Foods?
For more than a thousand years, dishes that wiggle and wobble have bounced to the fore during precarious eras.
By LIGAYA MISHAN, KYOKO HAMADA and MARTIN BOURNE

To Save Whales, Don’t Eat Lobster, Watchdog Group Says
The group says that the shellfish, long considered a more responsible choice, cannot be considered a guilt-free meal anymore.
By ANNIE ROTH

The Only Challah Recipe You’ll Ever Need (and It Gets You a Babka, Too)
This classic hugely versatile dough recipe from Claire Saffitz is rich, lightly sweet and ready to be shared.

If you’re curious about making bread and don’t know where to start, try a challah or babka.
By CLAIRE SAFFITZ
Recipes: Challah Bread | Cinnamon Babka

A Honey Cake With a Long History and Many Layers
Adapted from a Hungarian Jewish family’s recipe, this honey cake tastes like an icebox cake with a gingerbread crust.

Although called honey cake, this Hungarian layer cake is deeply flavored with ginger, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon.
By JOAN NATHAN
Recipe: Hungarian Honey Cake

Recipes to Make on Autopilot
On your busiest days, savory miso soup and ginger-dill salmon will feed with minimum fuss.
By MELISSA CLARK

How to Make the Best Miso Soup of Your Life
Secrets from a chef who has a lifetime of experience with the dish.

By ERIC KIM
Recipe:

A Book of Recipes and Testimony From Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
This affecting new cookbook includes mostly Eastern European dishes as well as first-person accounts of suffering and survival.

“Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” (Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, Melcher Media, $45).
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

A GOOD APPETITE
Hate Doing the Dishes? Try These 3 One-Pot, One-Pan Recipes.
Melissa Clark is obsessed with maximum flavor and minimal cleanup, and these sheet-pan brussels sprouts, full English breakfast and lemony chickpea stew show just that.

Paneer turns this brussels sprouts side dish into a light meal.
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipes: Brussels Sprouts With Paneer and Lime Dressing | Crispy Chickpea Stew With Greens and Lemon | Full English Breakfast

16 Easy Recipes for Hungry, Busy People
Or just hungry people who like easy recipes.
By Margaux Laskey

NEWSLETTER
Five Weeknight Dishes
This Fish Has a Smart Shortcut
Kay Chun uses peanut butter to create a simple, savory glaze.
By EMILY WEINSTEIN

A Dozen Reasons to Drink Beaujolais
A number of terrific wines from the region are available now. They range from the simple thirst-quenchers of old to the surprisingly complex.

By Eric Asimov

Michelin Reveals 2022 New York Area Additions
The star ratings will not be revealed until October, but the Michelin Guide offers a glimpse of the new restaurants making the list.
“Michelin no longer publishes printed guides in North America; it’s all digital on guide.michelin.com and a free app.”
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

The Dreamiest Shrimp Pasta Anchors This Summery Menu
Overindulge at the market? Turn sweet peppers into a starter, toss the corn into a pasta main and finish the meal with a berry-topped lemony Prosecco slush.

Recipes: Bell Pepper Salad With Capers and Olives | Shrimp Pasta With Corn and Basil | Prosecco Lemon Slush
By David Tanis

Spicy Shrimp-and-Greens From an Ottolenghi Head Chef
This dish was inspired by a childhood in the Philippines and created in a London test kitchen.

By YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

Our Place Introduces a Tagine Lid for Its Pans
The domed lid is meant to fit the company’s pans, but it can top most 11-inch skillets.

Moroccan tagine, $80, fromourplace.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

Tune In to a Talk on a Black Caterer of Early America
Henry Orr, who was born into slavery in 1792, catered for government figures and bought his and his family’s freedom.
“Henry Orr, a Black Caterer in Early Federal Washington, D.C.,” Sept. 21 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Culinary Historians of New York, free for members, $10 for nonmembers and guests, eventbrite.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

A GOOD APPETITE
This Salad Silences the Okra Critics
Filled with crisp broiled okra and served with a garlicky yogurt dressing, this summery recipe is deeply lovable.

Seasoning charred okra with cumin brings out the spice’s earthy flavor.
By Melissa Clark
Recipe: Charred Okra Salad With Garlicky Yogurt

10 happy hours to hit up in the Twin Cities
Beverages and bites that won’t break the bank.
LYDIA CHRISTIANSON

WINE SCHOOL
What’s the Deal With Riesling?
The dry white wine can’t seem to win fans. Are wine lovers generalizing from bad wines, or is riesling’s appeal profound but too narrow?
By ERIC ASIMOV

WINE SCHOOL
Your Final Wine School Assignment
This last class will examine Alpine white wines, but after 100 classes, the most important messages should carry through to a long and pleasing relationship with wine.

By ERIC ASIMOV

Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries?
Americans are increasingly turning to “buy now, pay later” services for food and other everyday essentials. And there are signs that the practice is putting some in deep debt.
“Buy now, pay later” services, which allow consumers to pay for goods in installments, often without interest, have become increasingly common for food purchases.
By Priya Krishna

This Vietnamese Dish Is Layered, Luminous and Striking. It’s Also Forgiving.
The first taste of bánh cuốn led to a yearslong project of culinary discovery.

By BRYAN WASHINGTON
Recipe: Bánh Cuốn

On Remote Farms and in City Gardens, a Native American Movement Grows
Through classes, seed banks and plantings, tribes across the United States are reclaiming their agricultural roots, growing healthy foods and aiming for self-sufficiency.
By KEVIN NOBLE MAILLARD
Recipes: Tepary Bean Salad | Three Sisters Bean Patties With Raspberry Aioli

FRONT BURNER
Make More Room on Your Charcuterie Board
The company Brooklyn Cured has released a black truffle salami, cured beef bresaola and a Tuscan red wine salami.

Brooklyn Cured Black Truffle Salami ($36 for three), Spicy Bresaola With Calabrian Chile ($38 for three packs of slices), Tuscan Red Wine Beef Salami ($34 for three packs of slices), brooklyncured.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

A GOOD APPETITE
3 Party Pies You Can Eat With Your Hands
Pie bars offer most of the same delights as their latticed counterparts, but are a lot more convenient, Melissa Clark writes.
A slab of creamy peach bars sits atop a piece of parchment paper set onto a marble cutting board. About half of the slab is cut into cubes. The orange-colored peach slices pop against the cream-cheese base.

These creamy peach pie bars are a little like cheesecake, but heavy on the fruit.
By Melissa Clark
Recipes: Raspberry Pie Crunch Bars | Coconut Pie Bars | Creamy Peach Pie Bars

21 Vegetarian Grilling Recipes for Labor Day Weekend
Change up your party with these deeply flavorful vegetarian options.
By Alexa Weibel

A Spicy Tomato Pasta for All Seasons
Alexa Weibel’s recipe is as great with ripe cherry tomatoes as it is with packaged ones from the grocery.
By MARGAUX LASKEY

14 Chicken Recipes Our Readers Can’t Get Enough Of
Baked, tossed into a salad, served with rice, and more ways to prepare everyone’s favorite poultry.
By TANYA SICHYNSKY

Soups and Stews for Summer
Recipes for when you need some coziness and comfort on a hot day.
By TEJAL RAO

This Nonalcoholic Aperitivo Is More Bitter Than Sweet
The new offering from Wilderton, a nonalcoholic spirits company in Portland, Ore., is perfect for cocktail hour.

Wilderton Bittersweet Aperitivo, $34.99 for 750 milliliters, wildertonfree.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

Roland Mesnier, Pastry Chef to Five Presidents, Dies at 78
French born and French trained, he served up inventive and ambrosial desserts in the White House for more than two decades.

Roland Mesnier with the first lady, Laura Bush, in 2006. As the pastry chef at the White House for nearly 25 years, he created elaborate confections like this Christmas gingerbread White House.
By Sam Roberts

His Medium, Salted Butter. His Craft, Sublime.
Gerry Kulzer, the new butter sculptor at the Minnesota State Fair, is ready to capture the likenesses of the dairy princesses, if only he can sculpt their tresses in time.
By Christina Morales

WHAT’S NEW 2022
Berlin, Back in Full Swing
Berlin’s 178 museums, seven symphony orchestras and three opera houses are once again up and running, along with a flourishing restaurant and nightclub scene.
By CHARLY WILDER

Greek Party Islands Chill Out
For years, Santorini, Mykonos and Ios have been known for their embrace of excess. But some new operators on Greece’s Cycladic Islands want to break that cycle.
By Sheila Yasmin Marikar

UKRAINE DISPATCH
Devouring Oysters by Battlefield, Ukrainians ‘Switch Off for a Bit’
A businessman’s unlikely oyster farm not far from the front lines with Russia has offered a rare sanctuary for battle-scarred Ukrainian troops.
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

FOOD MATTERS
How the Chile Became Hot
Why did the consumption of hot peppers — after centuries of cultivation and global migration — come to confer status and sophistication?
By LIGAYA MISHAN, PATRICIA HEAL and LEILIN LOPEZ-TOLEDO

Shortcuts to Big Flavor
Dried minced onion, snack-size nori sheets and crème fraîche pack a punch in vegetable-forward cooking.
By TEJAL RAO

23 Easy Tomato Recipes for Summer
Let the indisputable season’s star shine in a simple sauce, pasta, salad or beyond, with any of these delicious dishes.
By Tanya Sichynsky and Alexa Weibel

Tuesday Fancy Mussels
Jazz up any ol’ Tuesday with a 15-minute pot of shellfish.
By TANYA SICHYNSKY

Vegan, Indian-Inspired Soups From Maya Kaimal
Choices like lentil and creamy spiced butternut come in shelf-stable packages with two servings.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

This Cutting Board Won’t Harm Your Knives
Artisan Revere makes them from end grain, a configuration of wood that is said to be the least damaging to knife edges.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

All You Need for This Crisp-Tender Skillet Cake Is Rice and a Little Time
A gorgeous snack drizzled with honey or a way to shuttle soups, stews or grilled meat from plate to mouth, this simple dish is the best kind of exercise in patience, Yewande Komolafe writes.

Sinasir, flat skillet cakes made from fermented rice, are perfect vehicles for sopping up soups and stews.
By Yewande Komolafe

A GOOD APPETITE
This Easy One-Pan Chicken Recipe Has a Trick Up Its Sleeve
If you’re not already trimming your corn kernels off the cob this way, you should be, Melissa Clark writes.

Sweet corn kernels are a lovely accompaniment to chicken thighs, especially when sautéed in chicken fat and browned butter.
By Melissa Clark
Recipe: Skillet Chicken Thighs With Brown Butter Corn

J. Kenji López-Alt’s Summer Staple? Guacamole With Grilled Corn
A restaurant dish melding the dip with creamy esquites loosely inspired the chef and cookbook author’s new favorite.

This guacamole is rich with flavor and texture.
By J. Kenji López-Alt
Recipe: Guacamole With Grilled Corn

Behold the Fruit Sandwich
In this Japanese treat, ripe, seasonal gems are enrobed in cream and nestled between slices of milk bread.

By LIGAYA MISHAN
Recipe: Fruit Sandwich

‘If You Can Make a Salad, You Can Make Kimchi’
Kimjang, the act of preparing kimchi, allows Koreans of the diaspora to keep the tradition alive — and invites everyone to join.

In a world where most people buy their kimchi at the store, making it at home has become a priority for Koreans who wish to carry on the tradition of kimjang.Credit…Tanveer Badal for The New York Times
By Eric Kim
Recipes: Kimchi | Baek Kimchi (White Kimchi) | Baek Kimchi Jjigae (White Kimchi Stew)

Ice Cream?
At KSTP-TV Ashley Halbach says, “Minneapolis ice cream shop Bebe Zito is now selling a pint with THC gummies mixed into the product. Bebe Zito says the ‘Pineapple Express’ pints taste like a pineapple upside-down cake. They started with a pineapple base and added salted caramel-soaked pineapple upside-down cake mix-ins and THC gummies containing hemp-derived THC (Delta-9) from a local Black-owned company, Cultivated CBD. … The ice cream packaging shows that each pint contains a total of 40 THC gummies and that each gummy has 1.25 mg of THC.”

In days of olde, before COVID wracked the land, whenever I bought water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) at the farmer’s market, it was usually dismissed with ‘insect ridden’ or ‘too old’ and chucked into the garbage. Well, after the passage of time, and the advent of inflation at the Asian stores, the last two bundles I’ve bought at the King of Spinach’s stall have received quite different treatment. After the purchase, I texted someone that we could either eat it or they could take it to their sister’s — their choice. It seems either the growers have improved or my eyes have improved, but their sister did not get the bundle tonight, and, oh my, the stems were crunchy.

Dented, Dated, Discontinued? At the Salvage Grocery, It’s Called a Deal
Salvage food stores have long been a lure for the frugal and the intrepid. But inflation, environmentalism and some clever rebranding are expanding the fan base.
By KIM SEVERSON

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
In a Tense Political Moment, Taiwanese Cuisine Tells Its Own Story
The relationship between the island’s cooking and the food in mainland China is complex.
By TEJAL RAO

This Bakery Wants to Be Carbon-Neutral
A bakery in the Catskills is trying to be as sustainable as possible. Here’s an inside look.
By DEVORAH LEV-TOV

I Eat at Restaurants for a Living. That’s Not Why My Stomach Always Hurt.
Half the world’s population has H. pylori, a type of bacteria that can mess with digestion. So why doesn’t the problem have a higher public profile?
By Priya Krishna

The Lamp That’s Taking Over New York
A sleek newcomer, the Pina Pro, is appearing on droves of outdoor tables in the city — and sometimes disappearing, as diners fall for its mellow glow.

The Pina Pro lamp (pictured here at Momoya in SoHo) has popped up at restaurants across New York, its prevalence buoyed by outdoor dining.
By Priya Krishna

A GOOD APPETITE
The Best Summer Dinner Is Assembled, Not Cooked
Adding quickly grilled shrimp to a classic pairing of melon and feta turns a light weeknight meal into a hearty, yet refreshing main.

You can use any kind of melon or a combination in this simple salad.
By Melissa Clark
Recipe: Grilled Shrimp Salad With Melon and Feta

Late Summer Tomatoes Are Perfect for Spaghetti al Pomodoro
The purest distillation of summer umami with just four ingredients.

By ERIC KIM
Recipe: Pasta al Pomodoro

The Best End-of-Summer Party Starts With Tacos
Here are expert tips on how to put together a delicious spread that gives you even more time with family and friends.

Carne asada and arroz rojo are just two elements of a festive, low-effort spread.
By Genevieve Ko
Recipes: Carne Asada | Arroz Rojo (Red Rice)

TRADITIONS
And for Our Next Course … the Centerpiece
Chefs, artists and other creatives are making edible spectacles a meal’s main event.
By ALICE CAVANAGH and CHARLY GOSP

Zucchini Time
If you haven’t thought about zucchini lately, you should.
By EMILY WEINSTEIN

The Season for Grated Tomatoes
Plus a bonus recipe for sizzled eggplant.
By TEJAL RAO

THE POUR
12 Reasons to Love California Chardonnay
The wines have evolved, but the negative stereotypes linger. These diverse bottles will challenge what you think you know.

These bottles reflect a style of California chardonnay that prizes freshness and finesse.
By ERIC ASIMOV

Jan Longone, Influential Scholar of Food History, Dies at 89
The cookbook collection that began in the basement of her home became the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan.

Jan Longone, whose extensive collection of cookbooks and culinary ephemera became the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan.
By KIM SEVERSON

That Dinner Tab Has Soared. Here Are All the Reasons.
As diners everywhere suffer the shock of inflation, we tally up the many costs and forces driving up menu prices at a single restaurant.
By PRIYA KRISHNA and UMI SYAM

In Italy, Where Pizza Was Born, Domino’s Bows Out
The company entered the Italian market in 2015, but seems to have been done in by a proliferation of home-delivery food during the pandemic and a desire for more artisanal pies.
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Corny on Main
Sometimes you just can’t get enough of those sweet, fresh summer cobs.
By EMILY WEINSTEIN

Slow-Cooked Lamb That Can Stand the Heat
A meaty main, cooked indoors or out, anchors David Tanis’s August menu, book-ended by a light tomato-eggplant salad and an effervescent fruit compote.

A tomato salad and eggplant roasted over an open flame, then served over flatbreads, are an ideal complement to this lamb dish.
By David Tanis
Recipes: Tomato Salad With Smoky Eggplant Flatbread | Slow-Cooked Lamb Shoulder With Green Beans | Summer Fruit Compote

In Search of Mexican Pizza
Taco Bell may have made the name famous, but this pizza — made with leavened dough and traditional Mexican ingredients — has become a genre all its own.

The Chicana pie, topped with tomatillo sauce, mozzarella, black beans and chipotle-spiced chicken, goes into the oven at Rosario’s Pizzeria in South Philadelphia.
By REGAN STEPHENS

24 Freezer-Friendly Recipes to Cook for New (and Tired) Parents
A collection of ready-to-eat meals is almost as good as a full night’s sleep.
By MARGAUX LASKEY

Yotam Ottolenghi Has Made Thousands of Meringues. This Is His Favorite.
There are many variations of the simple, elegant sweet — but pavlova with seasonal fruit is among the best.

By YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
Recipe: Sunset Pavlova With Sweet Vinegar and Rosemary

The Perfect S’more Is Practically Burned and a Little Salty
Potato chips, Nutella and even Peeps can step into this campfire classic, but success lies in its balance of flavors and a healthy char.

In an ideal classic s’more, the marshmallow is oozy all the way through and charred on the outside.
By TANYA SICHYNSKY
Recipe: S’mores

THE POUR
The Problem With Wine Bottles
They may be a perfect container for aging wine, but glass bottles contribute enormously to climate change.
By Eric Asimov

Georges Briguet, Who Presided Over Le Périgord, Dies at 85
The owner of a classic French restaurant in Manhattan for a half-century, he welcomed his well-heeled guests by name, offering them a serene urban oasis on the far East Side.

Georges Briguet in 2015. He turned Le Périgord into a quiet oasis for unhurried New Yorkers and out-of-town regulars of a certain age and class.
By SAM ROBERTS

From Pizza to Dip, Chips and Popcorn, Pickle Is Summer’s Big Flavor
For people with a sweet-and-sour tooth, there’s never been a greater pick of pickle-flavored possibilities, thanks to pickle spice.
By CHRISTINA MORALES

Food Is Identity. For Korean Chefs Who Were Adopted, It’s Complicated.
Raised in the U.S., they’re exploring a heritage they didn’t grow up with through restaurant cooking — and finding both fulfillment and criticism.
By ELYSE INAMINE

How to Cook in a Vacation Rental (and Still Enjoy Your Vacation)
The most enjoyable meals on a trip may just be the ones you make yourself with these tips for planning, shopping and using up every ingredient.
By Ali Slagle

A Creamy, Spicy Dip Unlike Any Other
The Houston chef Dawn Burrell brings her biography to everything she cooks, like her creamed collard greens spiked with chile sauce.

By BRYAN WASHINGTON
Recipe: Creamy Collard-Greens Dip With Shito

FRONT BURNER
Four Cheeses That Can’t Be Beat
These cheeses took top honors at the American Cheese Society’s annual competition.
“In first place was Whitney, a Raclette-style cheese from Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro Bend, Vt. Second place went to two cheeses: Flagsheep, a semihard blend of cow and sheep milks by Beecher’s Handmade Cheese in Seattle; and Bamboozle, a washed-rind blend of goat and cow milks from Rodeo Farm & Dairy in Allison Park, Pa. In third place was another Jasper Hill Farm cheese, Greensward, a soft-ripened washed rind beauty made in collaboration with Murray’s Cheese in New York.”
By FLORENCE FABRICANT

Tomato Mode
Fresh summer tomatoes lend themselves beautifully to some exceptional no-cook and low-cook meals.
By EMILY WEINSTEIN

A GOOD APPETITE
Take Your Cakes to the Upside Down
You can’t beat a classic pineapple upside-down cake, but juicy peaches, plums, berries and even bananas are just waiting to step in, Melissa Clark writes.

Other fruit like stone fruit, berries and bananas can make upside-down cakes as good or even better than the usual pineapple.
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipes: Pineapple Upside-Down Cake With Pecans | Peach Upside-Down Cake | Berry Upside-Down Cake | Banana Upside-Down Cake

WINE SCHOOL
Should Red Wines Be Served Cool?
The proper serving temperature is nuanced, depending on the style of the wine, the vintage, the weather and your own personal taste.
By Eric Asimov

WINE SCHOOL
Dry German Riesling: An Eternal Conundrum
Many people are convinced that they do not like the wines. Are they simply a niche interest, or is their obvious appeal yet to be widely understood?

Brand Pfalz Riesling Trocken 2021, 12 percent (Vom Boden, Brooklyn, N.Y.) 1 liter, $18, Dreissigacker Rheinhessen Riesling Trocken 2021, 12 percent (Schatzi, Milan, N.Y.) $22, Georg Breuer Rheingau Estate Lorch 2020, 12 percent, (Skurnik Wines, New York) $35
By Eric Asimov