Spicy tagliolini with pancetta, Meyer lemon, and Pecorino Romano cheese adapted from Giada De Laurentiis’ Everyday Pasta.

As hinted in the title, this is an adaptation of a recipe in Giada’s Everyday Pasta, one of her many books I’ve been revisiting over the last few months for another project. One of the most useful techniques she’s helped to introduce into American kitchens is the concept of a no-cook sauce in which you…

Padma Lakshmi’s sweet and sour shrimp with cherry tomatoes from Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook and her new show Taste the Nation, worth watching right now.

  A very long time ago, back when we lived in New Haven, day trips to Manhattan were a pretty regular occurrence for us. One of these trips included good friends of ours and we spent the day visiting the MoMA, doing a little shopping at Barney’s New York, getting a drink at L’Orange Bleu…