Monthly Archives: August 2009

Maria Balinska, the author of “The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread,” responds to City Room readers.

With her writing and in her West Side food store, Ms. Lukins helped working women cook in more adventurous ways.

Facing financial troubles and a union lawsuit, the owners of Café des Artistes decided to close the Upper West Side restaurant.

A seventh-generation farm finds a future in unusually delicious crops.

The new stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets have been quietly offering fans an unlikely concept in ballpark cuisine: apples, pears, bananas and other fresh fruits.

Silky rouille, a spicy saffron mayonnaise, can be slathered on everything from grilled fish to grilled cheese.

If you want to eat more whole grains, there is no better place to start than cornmeal, the basis of the savory Venezuelan cakes called arepas.

In Tucson, vendors peddle hot dogs that are wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls.

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, everyone, local and visitor alike, seems to have their favorite place for smoked fish.

A small number of farms in the United States have begun to offer vacationers a chance to camp in a tent, milk goats and pick vegetables.

In his final column, The Times’s restaurant critic answers questions that he was often asked or that he wished he’d been asked over the years.

Studded with fresh tender kernels, this truly Southern corn pudding is like a custard.