Cooking and Cookbooks

September 12, 2020

Spice Up Your Pandemic Love Life

For many people, the monotony of the last 160-plus days has depleted just about everything. You aren’t alone if you barely recognize yourself, let alone your […]
June 18, 2020

The Real Women Behind Aunt Jemima

I was just five years old when the vibe in my grandmother Nannie’s kitchen aroused my culinary curiosity. It took 30 years and a dozen other […]
June 2, 2020

For Those Who Don't Know How to Cook, Quarantine Presents a Challenge

When she began self-isolating in her apartment in College Station, Texas, in March, Melissa Hodges thought it would be her big opportunity to finally learn to […]
June 1, 2020

Finding Euphoria in Bangkok’s Food Scene

With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve launched a new series, The World Through a Lens, in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of […]
May 27, 2020

At Home Newsletter: Finding a Balance Between Solitude and Loneliness

I saw a scarlet tanager from my window the other morning. It flitted past like something out of a cartoon, stopped on a fence post, then […]
May 22, 2020

A Bright, Comforting One-Pot Stew With West African Roots

When I returned from Nigeria at the end of February, it was at the tail end of the Harmattan, a season when the winds from the […]
May 22, 2020

How to Share Food Safely During the Pandemic

Maybe your big sister just had a baby, and you want to take her a home-cooked meal. Or you’d love to swap some sourdough starter for […]
May 21, 2020

Our Best Memorial Day Recipes

Summer may officially begin on the solstice, the longest day of the year, but the unofficial start to the season is the long Memorial Day weekend, […]
May 20, 2020

At Home Newsletter: All the Google Docs that are fit to print.

Welcome to At Home. Here’s an example of an email I used to get roughly four times a week before the pandemic, when my main job […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Consuming an Obscene Number of Calories Before Noon

ImageCredit…Illustrations by Tom JollyThe New York Times and Tom Bodkin/The New York Times The Joy of Consuming an Obscene Number of Calories Before Noon By May […]