Food! Glorious Food!
Mar. 3rd, 2021 10:36 amHow the Cookbooks of 2020 Tell the Stories of Our Pandemic Kitchens
From beans and baking projects to vegan and global recipes, the year’s best sellers show the ways home cooking changed, and what may lie ahead.
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By Kim Severson
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me?
Regaining my sense of smell is tedious and slow, but I’m using the only therapy proven to work.
By TEJAL RAO
How to Pretend You’re in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, Today
You might not be able to travel on spring break this year, but you can immerse yourself in Maya culture from home.

The Riviera Maya, a popular vacation corridor, is the Caribbean coastline south of Cancún to Tulum, where El Castillo, perched above the sea, is among the ancient ruins.
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
FRONT BURNER
This Cheese Is Made for Aging
The latest raw cow’s milk from Meadow Creek is an eight-month aged cheese named for Appalachia.

By FLORENCE FABRICANT
FRONT BURNER
Venison All the Way From Hawaii
Maui Nui sells various cuts from Axis deer, and the harvest helps combat erosion that has affected the island’s coral reefs.

Maui Nui Venison, mauinuivenison.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
FRONT BURNER
This Book Covers the Hard Stuff
“American Cider” looks at the history of the beverage, and it discusses how it is made, too.

“American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage,” by Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo (Ballantine Books, $18).
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Stop and Make This Rice Pudding
Warm and smoky with spices, this take, from Sara Mardanbigi and Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria, is worth making — and soon.

By SAM SIFTON
From beans and baking projects to vegan and global recipes, the year’s best sellers show the ways home cooking changed, and what may lie ahead.
( Read more... )
By Kim Severson
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me?
Regaining my sense of smell is tedious and slow, but I’m using the only therapy proven to work.
By TEJAL RAO
How to Pretend You’re in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, Today
You might not be able to travel on spring break this year, but you can immerse yourself in Maya culture from home.

The Riviera Maya, a popular vacation corridor, is the Caribbean coastline south of Cancún to Tulum, where El Castillo, perched above the sea, is among the ancient ruins.
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
FRONT BURNER
This Cheese Is Made for Aging
The latest raw cow’s milk from Meadow Creek is an eight-month aged cheese named for Appalachia.

By FLORENCE FABRICANT
FRONT BURNER
Venison All the Way From Hawaii
Maui Nui sells various cuts from Axis deer, and the harvest helps combat erosion that has affected the island’s coral reefs.

Maui Nui Venison, mauinuivenison.com.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
FRONT BURNER
This Book Covers the Hard Stuff
“American Cider” looks at the history of the beverage, and it discusses how it is made, too.

“American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage,” by Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo (Ballantine Books, $18).
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Stop and Make This Rice Pudding
Warm and smoky with spices, this take, from Sara Mardanbigi and Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria, is worth making — and soon.

By SAM SIFTON