Food and Wine Archive

The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco’s Beloved Restaurant - Mental Clarity: How crazy is this? So many of you bought Mental Clarity from Amazon that now they’re out of stock and don’t know when they’ll have more. If

This is Why You’re Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks - Man, am I stuffed --- and all I did was skim 128 pages. Though “skim” is the wrong word here. “Gorged” is more like it. And now I’m not sure what I need

Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Head Butler no longer gets a commission on your Amazon purchases. So the only way you can contribute to Head Butler’s bottom line is to become a patron

Twelve Months of Monastery Salads - I learned about food preparation from a very talented mother who tended to overdo things. Habitually --- if not compulsively --- Mom made the simple complex. The results

Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen - My wife worked for Pino Luongo for years and years. Mark Strausman cooked our wedding dinner. And now, burdened by this massive collaboration and friendship, I'm going to try to convince

V Is for Vegetables: Inspired Recipes & Techniques for Home Cooks — from Artichokes to Zucchini - The last time I saw Michael Anthony was in a private dining room at Gramercy Tavern. The occasion was a press lunch for his first cookbook. But it didn’t feel

Vegetable Harvest: Vegetables at the Center of the Plate - How much water does it take to grow your favorite foods? Beef: 3 million gallons of water per ton. (Slaughtering and processing beef requires another 132 gallons of water per

Welcome to Michael’s - --- Every few months, I meet friends at Michael's. That's the sort of thing you do when you're a sole proprietor of a media shop in Manhattan --- you

Williams-Sonoma Paris -       Williams-Sonoma Paris

Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker - We now live in East Harlem, a chip shot from the only Costco in Manhattan. There are few grocery stores in this neighborhood, so I often shop there. I find