Food! Glorious Food!

Woman Who Threw Food at Chipotle Employee Sentenced to Work Fast-Food Job
A judge reduced Rosemary Hayne’s jail sentence after she agreed to work in a fast-food restaurant for 20 hours a week for 60 days.
By Rebecca Carballo

A GOOD APPETITE
This Vegetarian Main Is Ready to Shine on Your Holiday Table
Layers of buttery phyllo surround a silky spiced vegetable stew in this showstopping dish.
By MELISSA CLARK

Cookies!

12 gluten-free holiday cookies to spread the joy far and wide


Chocolate-Raspberry Truffle Sandwich Cookies.
By Becky Krystal and Kari Sonde

12 holiday cookie recipes to savor and share this season

By Becky Krystal

7 Brilliant Cookies to Keep Your Holidays Bright
Make one or make them all.

Technicolor Cookies | Sam Seneviratne | NYT Cooking

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Gingerbread Blondies | Melissa Clark | NYT Cooking

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Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies | Vaughn Vreeland | NYT Cooking

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Lemon Butter Curls | Yewande Komolafe | NYT Cooking

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Rainbow Rave Cookies | Sohla El-Waylly | NYT Cooking

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Matcha Latte Cookies | Eric Kim | NYT Cooking

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Neapolitan Checkerboard Cookies | Sue Li | NYT Cooking

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Beth Dimino is in My Bubbie's Kitchen: Pignoli Cookies

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The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie - Depression vs WW2

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Trying the BEST & CLASSIC German Christmas Snacks & Candy!!

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Gift Lists

If your gifting includes those in the jet set, here's a gift list for you:



If existential angst over the impermanence of all things is destroying your holiday spirit, here's a gift list for you!



If you have people (or families) you hate, here's the gift link for you!



Here's a slightly more reasonable gift list for people or families you don't hate!



If you haz too much monies and want to blow it over the holidays, here's a list for you!

NYT Critic’s Pick Movie(s)

Concrete Utopia
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Directed by Tae-hwa Eom
Love thy neighbor is far from mind when disaster strikes a Seoul apartment complex in this blackhearted social satire.


Park Bo-young in “Concrete Utopia.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Anselm
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Documentary | Directed by Wim Wenders
The history and thought of the artist Anselm Kiefer is threaded throughout this exceptional documentary from Wim Wenders.


A scene from the documentary “Anselm.”
By ALISSA WILKINSON

Origin
NYT Critic’s Pick | PG-13 | Drama, History | Directed by Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay’s new feature film, adapted from the Isabel Wilkerson book “Caste,” turns the journalist into a character who examines oppression.


Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as the journalist Isabel Wilkerson in “Origin.”
By MANOHLA DARGIS

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
NYT Critic’s Pick | Not Rated | Music | Directed by Beyoncé, James B. Merryman, Mark Ritchie
The concert film offers a comprehensive look at a world-conquering tour and rare insight into the process of one of the world’s biggest stars.


Beyoncé in July on the Toronto stop of her Renaissance tour.
By WESLEY MORRIS

-- Of Possible Interest --

Our Son
R | Drama | Directed by Bill Oliver
A simple yet engaging melodrama, starring Billy Porter and Luke Evans, explores what it means for two fathers to divorce.
By BEATRICE LOAYZA