The One Thing Watermelon Experts Do to Pick Sweet Ones
It’s not a myth: You really do need to slap them and listen carefully.
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It’s not a myth: You really do need to slap them and listen carefully.
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The renamed Kent Hospitality Group has reshuffled staff, brought in the chef of Clover Hill and made plans for the future.
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At Lapis in Washington, D.C., the beloved shrimp mantoo are inspired by the chef Shamim Popal’s life and her love for Afghanistan.
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From giving turkey-roasting advice to making dosa with Mindy Kaling, Ms. Harris has leaned into cooking in a way no other candidate has.
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Grilled Chicken With Corn and Lime-Basil Butter, a Fantastic Taste of Summer
With blueberry spoon cake for dessert, naturally.
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Dan Pelosi’s new recipe tosses the strands with olive oil, butter, garlic, herbs and blistered cherry tomatoes for a perfect pan of pasta.
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Restaurant Review: Is Coqodaq a Fancy Fried-Chicken Joint or the End of the World?
With drumsticks in buckets and hundreds of Champagnes, Coqodaq leans into the city’s weird, giddy, and-the-band-played-on mood.
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Chan chan yaki takes three superb ingredients and adds sautéed veggies and a glug of sake for a fast, filling, salty-sweet dinner.
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This Ratatouille Always Sticks the Landing
Melissa Clark’s five-star recipe turns summer’s vibrant produce — tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and peppers — into a must-eat French delight.
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Lavitta’s Creole Serves Beignets and More in a 1940s Harlem Barbershop
Crawfish cakes with Creole aioli, a classic wild shrimp po’ boy and grits with red-eye lamb gravy are also on the menu.
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Cherries for Black Forest Cake, Tomatoes for Gazpacho, Swordfish for Piccata
Something out there, something delicious, is speaking to you. Heed its call.
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Pair Your Vietnamese Iced Coffee With Pandan Cakes
A perfect Vietnamese coffee is reason enough to celebrate. But a few sweet treats can’t hurt.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Grilled Vegetables
Including a robust barbecue vegetable salad with peaches and crushed corn chips that I need to eat off a soggy paper plate by a pool, immediately.
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Yasmin Fahr’s garlicky chicken with blistered tomatoes needs only 15 minutes under the broiler to yield a sunny, flavorful dinner.
By Melissa Clark
With blueberry spoon cake for dessert, naturally.
By Sam Sifton
Chan chan yaki takes three superb ingredients and adds sautéed veggies and a glug of sake for a fast, filling, salty-sweet dinner.
By Mia Leimkuhler
Something out there, something delicious, is speaking to you. Heed its call.
By Sam Sifton
It’s not a myth: You really do need to slap them and listen carefully.
By Genevieve Ko
A perfect Vietnamese coffee is reason enough to celebrate. But a few sweet treats can’t hurt.
Including a robust barbecue vegetable salad with peaches and crushed corn chips that I need to eat off a soggy paper plate by a pool, immediately.
By Tanya Sichynsky
Melissa Clark’s five-star recipe turns summer’s vibrant produce — tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and peppers — into a must-eat French delight.
By Mia Leimkuhler
Plus: new French hotels, eel bento boxes in Long Island City and more recommendations from T Magazine.
By Devorah Lev-Tov
The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.
By Chloé Braithwaite
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