Restaurant Review | Maysville
Nuance Meets Its Kentucky Roots
By PETE WELLS
A new restaurant on West 26th Street named after the birthplace of Kentucky bourbon is a confident restatement of the American tavern.
The Dining section conducted a blind tasting of 27 candies to find the best American small-batch, handmade chocolate-covered salted caramels.
A new restaurant on West 26th Street named after the birthplace of Kentucky bourbon is a confident restatement of the American tavern.
Jesse Schenker, the chef at Recette, has shown that even someone constantly surrounded by food can control his consumption enough to shed 55 pounds.
Wylie Dufresne, the pioneering, science-friendly chef at WD-50, plans to open a restaurant specializing in what some might call a cubist spin on pub grub.
The Dutch of yore flavored gin with hops, and now modern distillers are discovering they were onto something.
In France, there are a lot of cooking contests, including one for the slightly flattened meatballs that are a specialty of the Ardèche region.
Grilled with a spicy tomato sauce or baked with a rich stuffing of spinach and cheese, made-from-scratch polenta is a meal worth the cooking time.
Try them braised in stews or simmered in soups, slivered into salads or simply sliced, buttered, salted and nibbled raw.
Melissa Clark shows how to julienne a turnip into matchstick slices without using a mandolin or food processor.
Two copper stills, custom-made in Scotland, arrived last Monday at the Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, which in 2010 became the first legal distillery in New York City since Prohibition.
In his new book, “Inventing Wine,” Paul Lukacs makes the point that the idea of “tradition” in wine has been thoroughly mutable.
Lao Dong Bei specializes in the cuisine of China’s Dongbei region, which hasn’t yet succumbed to the American palate. Don’t wait for it to join the American-Chinese canon.
A move by Wal-Mart to require labels on products that contain genetically engineered ingredients could be influential in developing a national labeling program.
An 11-month-old restaurant in a 1940s railway-car diner serves smoked barbecue ribs, fried chicken and pulled pork po’boys.
At Carbone’s Kitchen in Bloomfield, flavors are rich and crowd pleasing, servers are friendly, and no one begrudges the glutton his due.
Despite a pungent eponym, there is nothing off-putting about a new Thai restaurant in Larchmont.
With several places in New Jersey regularly offering cheesemaking classes, mozzarella may be the favorite.
This week, a scale that measures and folds away, take out from Taste of Ethiopia and pickles from Boulton & Watt.
A preview of Harlow, reopened by Richard Notar; Just Bread by Bien Cuit and Clarke’s Standard open; Governor closes.
More and more of the country’s finest artisanal chocolate markers are producing caramels. So which ones should you give your Valentine?
Inside the restaurant in Flushing, Queens, which serves up a relatively new cuisine: that of the Dongbei region of China.
In New Orleans, the king cake reigns supreme — just don’t find a baby in your slice.
At Pouring Ribbons, a second-floor saloon that opened in September on Avenue B in the East Village, a new workplace model was created to give the bartender a fighting edge.
Interactive map of health violations at restaurants in New York
Pete Wells, the chief restaurant critic of The New York Times, is answering selected readers’ questions.
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