Serious Eats: New York
This Week in 'New York Times' Food News
Whoopie Pies Galore: The classic snacks are having their moment. We called this last year—almost to the date. And even then, Erin Zimmer here thought whoopie pies as a trend had reached a peak.
Wild West Comfort Food: The International Comstock Mountain Oyster Fry is a festival of testicles from gelded lambs and calves.
Wines from Bierzo: In Spain, an ancient wine region takes its place in the modern world of wine commerce.
The Bazaar in Los Angeles: Frank bruni deems José Andrés's new restaurant "ambitious and sprawling and even phantasmagorical." With foie gras cotton candy.
Pork Alone: Animal, in Los Angeles, is the epitome of a promiscuously meaty approach to cooking. Bonus: Writer Frank Bruni coins a new term—carniwhore: "The carniwhore school holds that no beast bests the pig in its multifaceted pleasures, that offal shouldn’t be relegated to just one or two dishes on the margins of the main feast...."
Operation Cauliflower: Golden slices of roasted cauliflower sprinkled with capers, toasted almonds and raisins changed the ways of a former cauliflower hater.
Cayuga Beans: Contrary to what many people may think, dried beans are not forever. Freshness affects how long they take to cook and how buttery and tender the result will be.
Fragrant Floral Rice: Péchés de Provence, a company in St.-Gilles, France, combines long-grain white rice with lavender or rose petals, brown rice with poppies or violets, and red rice with jasmine or orange blossoms.
One Star: That's what Frank Bruni grants Kefi on the Upper West Side. He accuses chef Michael Psilakis of "messy, obvious cooking."
Tiny Cupcakes: One mouthful of sugary goodness for one buck.
Brooklyn Sandwich Smackdown: Lamazou and Defonte’s are six blocks apart, but " Lamazou is a little bit country. Defonte’s is all rock ’n’ roll."