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Red Beans and Rice Soup with Ham
Red beans and rice, served throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, is one of the signature dishes of New Orleans, a city rich with the influences of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, that’s why Louis Armstrong, New Orleans’s pioneering cultural ambassador to the world, used to sign off his…
Milk Street Radio: The Amazing World of Mexican Desserts
This week, we taste the sweeter side of Mexican cuisine with chef Fany Gerson. Traveling from Mexico City to Veracruz to Oaxaca, we explore regional confections like chili-flavored paletas and guava and cheese doughnuts. Plus, we take a seat at the Noir Bar with writer and television host Eddie Muller,…
Sautéed Tilapia with Spicy Mint Sauce
This recipe contains everything you need to bestow some serious charisma on a bland fish fillet: lime juice for acidity, fish sauce for saltiness, mint for herb-ish brightening, and jalapeno for heat. I’ve cast tilapia in the lead role here, but almost any fish — catfish, arctic char, black cod,…
Milk Street Radio: 2025 Food Trends from NYTime’s Kim Severson
Kim Severson of the New York Times predicts the biggest food trends of 2025—from dirty sodas and whiskey ketchup to the new supermarket and the ingredient of the year. Also up this week, we get a lesson in southern Thai cooking from Nok Suntaranon, we make Bread Dumplings in Broth,…
Pascalou – Cozy NYC Bistro on the Upper East Side
Here I am with my buddy Pascal Bonhomme. He and his wife, Lottie Baglan, own this little gem of a neighborhood restaurant on Madison Ave. between 92nd and 93rd street. The menu is French with Mediterranean, Italian and a few international dishes thrown in. Pascal and I worked together many…
Rich Hot Chocolate
The most extraordinarily delicious hot chocolate I have ever consumed was served at a teahouse called Angelina’s near the Louvre in Paris. Dubbed chocolat africain, it was so rich you could nearly stand a spoon in it. I am not quite sure how they make it, but I suspect from the…
Milk Street Radio: Dwight Garner’s Obsession with Word and Table
We’re joined by New York Times book critic and author Dwight Garner. He presents food quips from his favorite writers, as well as John Updike’s lunch routine and Hunter S. Thompson’s party tricks. Plus, anthropologist Manvir Singh helps us digest the world of “meat-fluencers” and their all-meat diets; A Way…
Baked Chicken Thighs with Quick Lemon Pickles and Artichoke Hearts
Preserved lemons, a/k/a lemon pickles, are a delicious and unique treat that have long delivered a ton of salty and acidic crunch to the cuisines of North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia…and to America, too, in recent years. Typically, there are two ways for us to opt in: …
Milk Street Radio: Best of 2024
We’re looking back at some of our favorite moments from 2024. We’ll share the surprises—from the secret lives of vegetables, to the underworld of restaurant reservations—and the best culinary advice we received from guests like José Andres and Stella Parks. Plus, Christopher Kimball and Sara Moulton revisit the most memorable…
A Holiday Gift for the Vegetable Lover!
This definitive tome features plant based dishes from around the world that will get everyone (yes, even you carnivores) cooking.