Next week, Joan Nathan, the D.C.-based cookbook author who's won just about every award there is, will release her first recipe collection in five years. Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous is different from Nathan's other tomes in that it draws on a very specific region rather than looking at the entire diaspora of Jewish cooking. In [...]
As you can imagine, most of Y&H's readers are based right here in the God-fearing, gun-loving United States of America. But as I've been messing around with Google Analytics, I've discovered a number of posts from 2009 that played well in foreign countries, sort of like old blues musicians in Europe, I guess. Below you'll find the five most-popular Y&H [...]
My in-laws are friends with a delightful couple, Doug and Beth, who spent years in the Middle East where Doug was a political officer at various U.S. embassies. They were in the stands when Anwar Sadat was killed in 1981. When not discussing world politics, Doug is a serious oenophile—and a generous one, too. He [...]
Today officially marks the release of the 2008 vintage of Beaujolais Nouveau, a period of drinking and merrymaking that I compare to New Year's Eve. It's for rookies.
