Food & Dining

Winter is the season for red chile enchilada sauce. You can almost smell the piñon and juniper smoke drifting from the leaky wood stove, as you explore the profound depths ...

Winter is chicory season. Chicories are the often-labeled bitter greens, which include radicchio, endive, puntarelle, and escarole. Bunches ...

The many setbacks of 2020 notwithstanding, there were numerous bright spots for the wine industry over the course ...

If your kitchen looked anything like mine this holiday season, there was a constant stream of cookies and ...

In my family, fresh pasta is for special occasions. Be it a holiday like Christmas or Easter, a ...

This is the basic recipe for fresh pasta that my grandma taught me years ago. There’s a golden ...

Tortelli mugellani are a type of filled pasta typical of Mugello, a mountainous area near Florence, bordering Emilia ...

As much as I love a robust meat or game sauce, a summer basil pesto, or a rich ...

Pompeii is famed for plaster-cast bodies, ruins, frescoes, and the rare snapshot it provides of a rather typical ...

There are countless variations of lasagne throughout Italy. What they all require is a layering of ingredients and ...

I had my first baby in the middle of fall, the same week the tree outside our front ...

The long nights of January always lead my imagination down a well-worn path to the garden. As I ...

Are you feeling the winter doldrums? January can be a blue time, post-holidays, when the dust settles and ...

Before wrapping up the holidays, there is one final occasion the French take to eat and rejoice: the ...

The village is covered in a blanket of snow so thick you can build labyrinths from door to ...

In 2020, while I didn’t get to a lot of bars to sample the brews, I had some ...

The dark days around winter solstice make human beings hungry for light. It could be a decorated tree, ...

Holiday festivities are muted and gatherings reduced this year, inspiring feelings that toggle between a yearning for glitter ...

When the late Jack and Jamie Davies purchased the historic Jacob Schram winery in Calistoga, California, in 1965, ...

Growing up, it was never an option for my siblings and me to miss New Year’s at home—nor ...

I am totally superstitious. I knock on wood, cross my fingers, step over cracks on the sidewalk, and ...

Eggnog season is upon us! To be honest, in some parts of the Midwest I am not sure ...

I love to cook. And I enjoy inviting guests for dinner parties or more casual meals. What I ...

A group of newly acquainted food writers wandered up the cobbled roads of a Roman hill, presumably toward ...

It's winter, nearly the new year, and uncertain times. With that convergence, we could all do with some ...

This sweet, enriched yeast bread owes much of its deliciousness to its swirls of bittersweet walnut and rum ...

In Bucovina of northeastern Romania, alongside the traditional rectangular cozonac, people also bake a round braided or swirled ...