Food! Glorious Food!
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lsandersonFor Cuban Home Cooks, Ingenuity and Luck Are Key Ingredients
By KIM SEVERSON
Recipe: Cuban-Style Arroz Congrí
Just Add Salt: How to Make Bacon and Pancetta at Home
By IAN FISHER
Recipes: Beet- and Horseradish-Cured Salmon | Duck Prosciutto | Shortcut Guanciale | Home-Cured Bacon
An Easy Phyllo Torte for Spring
A Good Appetite
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Phyllo Ricotta Torte With Spring Herbs
For the Forager or Francophile, a Dandelion Salad
City Kitchen
By DAVID TANIS
Recipe: Dandelion Salad With Beets, Bacon and Goat Cheese Toasts
Kale, Coconut and Grace in a Salad
Eat
By SAM SIFTON
Recipe: Warm Kale, Coconut and Tomato Salad
Give Fajitas, a Tex-Mex Classic, the Treatment They Deserve
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Recipes: Steak Fajitas | Chicken Fajitas | Shrimp Fajitas With Peppers and Zucchini | Salsa Fresca | Quick Green Salsa | Dishes for Cinco de Mayo
Single Malts, but Don’t Call Them Scotch
By ERIC ASIMOV
Tasting Report
★★★ Navazos Palazzi Malt Whisky Spain Single Palo Cortado Cask 52.5 percent $100
Complex and savory, with wide-ranging flavors of toffee, clover, butter, iron and salt. (U.S.A. Wine Imports, New York)
★★★ Lord Lieutenant Kinahan’s Single Malt Irish Whiskey 10 Years 46 percent $62
Smooth and appealing, with mellow flavors of fruit, flowers, butterscotch and spices. (Winebow, New York)
★★★ Hakushu Single Malt Whisky Japan 12 Years 43 percent $85
Bursting with sweet aromas and flavors of fruit and flowers, herbs, soy and vanilla. (Suntory U.S.A., New York)
Best Value
★★★ Tyrconnell Single Malt Irish Whiskey 40 percent $30
Mellow, with lingering flavors of wax, cream, iodine and licorice. (Kilbeggan, Deerfield, Ill.)
★★★ Balcones Single Malt Whisky Texas 53 percent $85
Complex, with dominant flavors of toffee, cream and caramel, supported by herbs and spices.
★★★ Warenghem Armorik Breton Single Malt Whisky France 46 percent $52
Spicy and floral, with an oily texture and flavors of apple blossoms, cream and smoke. (Heavenly Spirits, Lakeville, Mass.)
★★½ Bastille 1789 Single Malt Whisky France 43 percent $70
Young and powerful, with savory, spicy, medicinal flavors. (Palm Bay International, Boca Raton, Fla.)
★★½ Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky 46 percent $55
Gentle and inviting, with flavors of cinnamon, licorice, vanilla and butter. (Purple Valley Imports, Pittsburgh)
★★½ Kavalan Classic Single Malt Whisky Taiwan 43 percent $100
Clean and balanced, with mellow flavors of vanilla, spices and smoke. (Anchor Distilling, San Francisco)
★★ Reisetbauer Single Malt Whisky Austria 7 Years Chardonnay and Trockenbeerenauslese Barrels 43 percent $90
Polarizing, with aromas of fruit and lingering flavors of lanolin, wax, heather and salt. (Skurnik Wines, New York)
Recipe Pairing: Almond-Apricot Tart
Bartender, There’s a Logo in My Drink
By ROBERT SIMONSON
Just Beaujolais and Chenin Blanc (and That Could Be Enough)
The Pour
By ERIC ASIMOV
Beer Purity Law, a German Tradition (and Marketing Tool), Turns 500
By ALISON SMALE
Quiz: 5 Questions About Beer in Germany
Germans are celebrating the anniversary of the beer purity law, with dozens of events planned throughout the year. Half a millennium after the law’s birth, how much do you know about beer drinking in Germany?
By KIM SEVERSON
Recipe: Cuban-Style Arroz Congrí
Just Add Salt: How to Make Bacon and Pancetta at Home
By IAN FISHER
Recipes: Beet- and Horseradish-Cured Salmon | Duck Prosciutto | Shortcut Guanciale | Home-Cured Bacon
An Easy Phyllo Torte for Spring
A Good Appetite
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Phyllo Ricotta Torte With Spring Herbs
For the Forager or Francophile, a Dandelion Salad
City Kitchen
By DAVID TANIS
Recipe: Dandelion Salad With Beets, Bacon and Goat Cheese Toasts
Kale, Coconut and Grace in a Salad
Eat
By SAM SIFTON
Recipe: Warm Kale, Coconut and Tomato Salad
Give Fajitas, a Tex-Mex Classic, the Treatment They Deserve
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Recipes: Steak Fajitas | Chicken Fajitas | Shrimp Fajitas With Peppers and Zucchini | Salsa Fresca | Quick Green Salsa | Dishes for Cinco de Mayo
Single Malts, but Don’t Call Them Scotch
By ERIC ASIMOV
★★★ Navazos Palazzi Malt Whisky Spain Single Palo Cortado Cask 52.5 percent $100
Complex and savory, with wide-ranging flavors of toffee, clover, butter, iron and salt. (U.S.A. Wine Imports, New York)
★★★ Lord Lieutenant Kinahan’s Single Malt Irish Whiskey 10 Years 46 percent $62
Smooth and appealing, with mellow flavors of fruit, flowers, butterscotch and spices. (Winebow, New York)
★★★ Hakushu Single Malt Whisky Japan 12 Years 43 percent $85
Bursting with sweet aromas and flavors of fruit and flowers, herbs, soy and vanilla. (Suntory U.S.A., New York)
Best Value
★★★ Tyrconnell Single Malt Irish Whiskey 40 percent $30
Mellow, with lingering flavors of wax, cream, iodine and licorice. (Kilbeggan, Deerfield, Ill.)
★★★ Balcones Single Malt Whisky Texas 53 percent $85
Complex, with dominant flavors of toffee, cream and caramel, supported by herbs and spices.
★★★ Warenghem Armorik Breton Single Malt Whisky France 46 percent $52
Spicy and floral, with an oily texture and flavors of apple blossoms, cream and smoke. (Heavenly Spirits, Lakeville, Mass.)
★★½ Bastille 1789 Single Malt Whisky France 43 percent $70
Young and powerful, with savory, spicy, medicinal flavors. (Palm Bay International, Boca Raton, Fla.)
★★½ Amrut Indian Single Malt Whisky 46 percent $55
Gentle and inviting, with flavors of cinnamon, licorice, vanilla and butter. (Purple Valley Imports, Pittsburgh)
★★½ Kavalan Classic Single Malt Whisky Taiwan 43 percent $100
Clean and balanced, with mellow flavors of vanilla, spices and smoke. (Anchor Distilling, San Francisco)
★★ Reisetbauer Single Malt Whisky Austria 7 Years Chardonnay and Trockenbeerenauslese Barrels 43 percent $90
Polarizing, with aromas of fruit and lingering flavors of lanolin, wax, heather and salt. (Skurnik Wines, New York)
Recipe Pairing: Almond-Apricot Tart
Bartender, There’s a Logo in My Drink
By ROBERT SIMONSON
Just Beaujolais and Chenin Blanc (and That Could Be Enough)
The Pour
By ERIC ASIMOV
Beer Purity Law, a German Tradition (and Marketing Tool), Turns 500
By ALISON SMALE
Quiz: 5 Questions About Beer in Germany
Germans are celebrating the anniversary of the beer purity law, with dozens of events planned throughout the year. Half a millennium after the law’s birth, how much do you know about beer drinking in Germany?
