Recipes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One version of Romanian cozonac replaces the traditional walnut and rum filling with bits of Turkish delight—enticingly gooey ...

There are plenty of things I look forward to on Christmas morning: the look on my daughters’ faces ...

We are now entering the season when “ice cold” doesn’t necessarily sound like the best thing—maybe even for ...

These cookies are great when you have a craving for something super chocolatey. Bake them for 8 minutes ...

Make this as mild or as spicy as you wish by adding more or less hot sauce, depending ...

This holiday season, entertaining as we knew it is no longer so. How things have changed! I am ...

The Jewish American tradition of eating Chinese food at Christmas is rooted in pragmatism and loneliness. In the ...

It's the middle of December, and I should be in the woods. More precisely, I should be in ...

I am a yogurt convert. While teaching English for a year in Turkey, I learned just how central ...

If it's not broken, then don't fix it. This pertains to great recipes, baking techniques and, more specifically, ...