Killer Baked Spaghetti with Bacon Casseroles are a brilliant concept—the original hearty feed-a-crowd, one-pot meal. None other than the great food writer M.F.K. Fisher called the casserole “probably one of the greatest modern inventions since aspirin.” She’ll get a witness from canny chefs and restaurateurs who have for years offered on their menus casseroles by names that seem to class... Food
Ten Great Uses for Iceberg Lettuce “Iceberg would smile if it could,” opined the cookbook author Marion Cunningham about her favorite lettuce. “It is sturdy but has a surprisingly delicate flavor. Unlike some of the frail field lettuces that wilt, swoon, and have the vapors ready, iceberg is a stalwart,” she wrote. It is awfully popular to knock iceberg lettuce in... Food
How More Sausage is Made “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,” wrote the late poet John Godfrey Saxe. I always agreed with that sentiment. Making sausage is not part of my own food heritage, and it always seemed like a hobby that was deeply, profoundly messy. But my friends Andrew... Food
The Last Bite of Salsa Vinaigrette Did it happen when you started cooking for your kids: You discovered you were tossing out perfectly good yet uneaten food? It is impossible to predict which meal my kids will chow down on, and which they will forsake. It is clearly an arbitrary game-time decision. To combat the unnecessary discard, we instituted a “waste... Food
The World's Best Sardine Sandwich So there’s this really great sandwich shop in my town. It’s called “Sandwhich” because the Moroccan dude who owns it, who used to cook at Union Square Cafe in Manhattan, is named Hich. His are special sandwiches, filled with locally-sourced ingredients and made with a lot of care. They are not cheap, but I think... Food
What to Cook This Weekend: Summer Brisket “For years I held fast to the theory that only two kinds of people could properly cook the cut of beef known as brisket: Southerners and Jews,” wrote a food writer a few years ago in Saveur magazine. The statement’s author, me, posits a view that Eastern European immigrants to the United States brought with... Food
