What Your Grocery Cart Says About You
We combed through a month’s worth of receipts from more than two dozen people across the U.S. to better understand our relationship to the food we buy.
By Priya Krishna, Tanya Sichynsky and
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We combed through a month’s worth of receipts from more than two dozen people across the U.S. to better understand our relationship to the food we buy.
By Priya Krishna, Tanya Sichynsky and
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His innovative version of the chocolate chip cookie, studded with irregular pieces of dark Swiss chocolate, led to a chain of more than 100 stores worldwide.
By Florence Fabricant
Just drop the ingredients into the pot, let them bubble for a few hours and then pull the soft, succulent meat into shreds.
By Melissa Clark
Over and over, they strain to persuade us that vegetables are healthy — and other things we’ve all known since childhood.
By Nicholas Cannariato
A buttermilk chess pie so good that it has followed a pastry chef around for more than a decade.
By Lisa Donovan
The New York-based, French-born chef Yann Nury updated his childhood favorite with cherry tomatoes and an olive oil crust.
By Lauren Joseph
Long overlooked as throwback novelties, spinning trays are making a comeback.
By Alexa Brazilian
The designer Rolly Robínson gathered their close friends and collaborators to celebrate their new collection of jungle-themed pieces.
By Coco Romack
The secret ingredient is ice, which quickly cools the noodles and makes the sauce brothy and cold enough to freshen a July evening.
By Melissa Clark
At the Baroque guesthouse she runs in Portugal, Rebecca Illing hosted old friends for a meal suffused with nostalgia.
By Alice Cavanagh
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By Ella Quittner
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