Food News

You could spend days reading about bouillabaisse in The Times’s recipe archive. This version, from 1904, is, happily, one of the simplest.

Baking from memory in the wee hours of the morning.

Dozens of new cafes and coffee bars treat coffee making like an art, or at least a high form of craft.

Mediterranean-inspired halibut, roasted with lemons, olives and rosemary, is juicy and fragrant.

When it comes to breakfast tacos, which are stuffed with fillings like eggs and bacon, Austin, Tex., trumps all other American cities.

The bulk of this restaurant’s menu — 22 pages — is referred to as a “wine library”; the food offerings only fill one page.

From bold experiments to understated havens of cool, new restaurants have sprung up in cultural institutions all over the city.

A number of so-called gastrohotels have been popping up alongside some of Spain’s most acclaimed restaurants.

Here's our latest video from Food2, featuring beloved Italian chef Cesare Casella (of Salumeria Rosi). Chef Casella (who's also the dean of Italian studies at the French Culinary Institute) teaches us a technique so effective, I'll never make risotto any other way again: For those of you who can't watch the video, here's the recipe (after the jump)...... Adam Roberts http://www.amateurgourmet.com/

Can chickens save the desperate housewife?

This pasta is ideal for a dinner party when there is little time to prepare. Just be sure to use fresh ricotta.

Negotiations on protecting endangered species will open in Qatar with tensions over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory.

Recipe from Bon Appétit

Niche coffee roasters are changing decaf by going an extra mile for good beans.

If you’re Katie Lee, start with a dollop of fame (marriage to Billy Joel), parboil a couple of cookbooks, marinate on the morning shows and serve a spec TV pilot.

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Recipe from Bon Appétit

In parts of France, farmers make a traditional meal of boiled chickpeas and spinach or chard.

Inspiration strikes at the strangest moments. Like Newton under the apple tree, you might be daydreaming about "The Golden Girls" episode where Dorothy's friend has a lesbian crush on Rose and BOOM--you've invented gravity! Such was the case for me, last week, while grading student work in my Gotham Food Writing class: I had the sudden, inexplicable urge to stick a banana in a hot dog bun, schmear it with peanut butter, drizzle on honey and call it "The Elvis Dog." This was a great moment in human history.... Adam Roberts http://www.amateurgourmet.com/

The chef Chris Santos, a judge on the reality show “Chopped,” sought out attractive ways to store knives at home.