Food & drink

Food & drink

The team behind The Prince Arthur in Belgravia (which we reviewed at the start of the year) have already launched their next place - Arthur's Market in Chelsea. Located way down the King's Road (opposite The Cadogan Arms), the space houses a deli, grocery store, butchers, fishmongers, and two restaurant concepts - ASA Izakaya and Salvador. As you can probably guess by the names, the first is a sushi counter and the second is a Spanish tapas bar.

After living in the U.S. for seven years, Hung recently took the streets of New York by storm with an informal, intriguing business. The idea started three years ago when thousands of his fellow Venezuelans came to the Big Apple, but it only materialized a few weeks ago when he began selling portions of Venezuelan-style fried rice (a tropicalized version of the famous chow fan rice, which includes beef, chicken, shrimp, diced ham, vegetables, and wheat germ) in Brooklyn.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The winter holidays are nearly here, which means it's a great time to gather with friends and family for some festive celebratory drinks. But where to go? If cozy kitsch, the glow of Christmas lights and an abundance of tinsel are your vibe, head for one of these 11 pop-up holiday cocktail bars around the Bay Area.

I didn't grow up in a baking household. As the Asian immigrant lore goes, our oven (and dishwasher, while we're at it) was, indeed, used primarily for storage. That isn't to say that we didn't love baked goods. One of my favorites growing up was the classic black-and-white cookie found in many New York City bakeries and Jewish delis. It was a real treat to pick one up after a museum or gallery trip with my mom.

They will give 100 free burgers from each of their locations across the UK (32 in London) to the first 100 people to queue up outside their restaurants. Not just a burger, but also a portion of their rosemary salted chips to add some carbs to the protein-rich meal. Honest's Double Smashed Burger features two smashed British beef patties, American cheese, brown butter mustard mayo, diced onions, and homemade pickles - and usually costs just under £13.

And you know what? I regret it, because by the end it was totally shot; its elaborate layers of spice, incense, and fruit had become as woody and lifeless as an antique wardrobe. The moral of the tale is carpe diem. Because, whatever people tell you, spirits do fade. It takes time - often years - but once they're opened oxygen always gets to them in the end.

A favorite for building breakfast bowls, enhancing homemade bakes, and blitzing into smoothies, yogurt is a regular in many of our fridges. Whether thick Greek yogurt, tangy kefir, or a plant-based alternative is your go-to, yogurt is always sure to bring a delicious dose of creaminess. One way to make this humble ingredient shine is transforming it into a decadent dessert.

In the fray of the holiday, we often forget the significance of the food on the Thanksgiving table. Almost all of it is made from ingredients-plants and animals-that are native to the Americas. Squash, beans, and corn. Cranberries, blueberries, and pumpkin. The tender turkey and the humble potatoes. It is the contents of the banquet that give it context, underscoring its origins as an event of intercontinental exchange between the Native cultures of the Americas and the interloping Europeans.

The famous limestone quarry in Rosendale, N.Y., supplied material to build many of the monuments that define America. In the 1800s, this town in the Hudson Valley produced half the cement used in North America and the material was used to build the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, and the 27,000-ton pedestal that the Statue of Liberty stands on.

While there are a number of different, regional styles of BBQ found across the U.S., it's safe to say that they all have a few things in common: They all make for an incredible meal, and you're probably going to make a bit of a mess eating it. But that's part of the fun, right? Truly great BBQ takes time, effort, and commitment - even though there are some great versions of pulled pork that you can make with as little as three ingredients.

It's the holiday season, which means it's the kick-off to building the traditional gingerbread houses for many families. I used to do this all the time as a kid growing up in the Midwest - it was just a normal part of the season. I haven't really kept up the tradition as an adult, though. This year, I decided to give it another go for the first time in ages.

When doing my research, I ended up going down the biggest rabbit hole of cocoa information I could ever have imagined. For instance, many cocoa powders have been alkalized, which means that they've been treated with potassium carbonate. This allows for changes to be made in acidity level, color, and flavor. And there is more than one alkalization process that can be done, which adds another level to the cocoa processing.

When you work with the school system you know the families that are in need because there are a lot of babies that come to school and that's the only meal they get,

The recipe that Alison Roman may be best known for today is her caramelized-shallot pasta, published in 2020 when she was a food writer for The New York Times. It became the defining recipe of the early pandemic in part because its ingredients-except for the anchovy fillets-are pretty basic. And there are only 10 of them, including the pasta and salt. For Roman, the mega-viral recipe came to embody her signature "Stone Soup style": familiar ingredients magically transformed.

War is a divisive subject. There's nothing positive about the loss of millions of lives. However, despite the immense destruction caused throughout history, some of the world's most iconic foods have resulted from wartime. Take candy, for example. M&Ms were literally inspired by a need to create candy for soldiers that could withstand the terrible conditions of war. It's true what Plato said, that "Necessity is the mother of invention." And sadly, there are few conditions that drive food innovation better than wartime, when lives are at stake and everyday ingredients truly become luxuries.

Our geographical position makes this probably the best place in Britain for producing mussels, he adds, pointing to the boat's screen, where different colours display the areas where several companies are licensed to harvest the shellfish. It's because of the tidal exchange going through the Menai Strait, it gets up to six knots in the middle there, he says. You've got a massive volume of water exchanging both ways, bringing in the food and nutrients the mussels like.

While most items are freshest right after opening, there is one item that generally is not, and that's the fried rice. So, if you only like fresh fried rice, consider ordering something else for your side if you're doing an early order. The reason that the fried rice isn't usually fresh right at opening is that the employees are still using up the rice they had left over from the night before. The same isn't true for the white steamed rice, which is made fresh.

There's usually at least one person on your Christmas list that you really have to wrack your brains to find a good present for. It only gets harder every year, so to ease the challenge, we asked a selection of personal shopping and gifting experts for clever ideas in some of the most tricky-to-buy-for categories.