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A Good Appetite: Updating the Holiday Plum Cake

For a twist on an old fruity standby for Rosh Hashana, whole-wheat flour adds a deep, nutty flavor.

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The Tipsy Diaries: The Kitchen Sink in Your Drink

It’s an infuse-a-palooza out there, as infused spirits make serious headway in bars and restaurants of all kinds.

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Food: The Cheat: A Hot Tomato

The plump and juicy kind.

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The Peanut Solution

An easy-to-produce paste may help cure malnourishment around the world. But who owns the recipe?

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Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook

After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

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Rosh Hashana Recipes Routed Through Africa

For the Jews of France, holiday dishes often hold the flavors of North Africa rather than Eastern Europe.

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Power Ingredients: Rose Water Adds a Subtle Kick

Just a drop or two of this relatively inexpensive product adds the fragrance of one of the world’s great flowers to your cooking.

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Shopping With Marc Murphy: Picnic Essentials

The chef Marc Murphy shopped for good things to put in the basket while the weather is still nice.

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A Chef in His Getaway Galley

Steve Johnson, the owner of the restaurant Rendezvous in Cambridge, Mass., escapes to a houseboat with a tiny, minimally stocked kitchen.

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Restaurant Review: Il Matto

The chef Matteo Boglione embraces his eccentricity at this spare and radical new restaurant in TriBeCa.

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Dining Briefs | Recently Opened: Strong Place

Flexing its muscles in Cobble Hill is this new sister spot to the already popular Bocca Lupo.

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Dining Briefs | Recently Opened: Seersucker

Urbane, soft-spoken and modern, Seersucker in Carroll Gardens is not a Northerner’s idea of a Southern restaurant.

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Wines of The Times: Freeing Muscadet From a Pigeonhole

The panel tasted 20 bottles of Muscadet, a wine with virtues that extend well beyond its reputation as a natural partner for oysters.

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The Minimalist: Grill That Dough, Stack That Bread

Grilled breads have enormous appeal: they represent an easy way to make homemade bread, and they take on a lovely smoky flavor and slight charring.

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Food Stuff: Greek Recipes Added to Essex Street Market

Rona Economou opens a shop at Essex Street Market, with Greek recipes.

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Food Stuff: From an Old Distillery, New Brandies

Etude, a Napa Valley Winery, has created two one-of-a-kind blends made from aging, unfinished brandies.

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Off the Menu

Eataly, the Italian food market, has opened its first American store.

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Dining Calendar

Dining events around town.

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Jimmy Bradley Is Returning to the Kitchen at the Harrison

He handed off the reins when he opened other restaurants.

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Weekend Fare

Brazilian Day in Manhattan, West Indian food in Brooklyn, Asian food in Queens and food trucks on Governors Island.

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Joan Nathan on Rosh Hashana Cooking

Recipes for pepper salad, chicken with apples and squash.

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Recipe: Crunchy-Topped Whole-Wheat Plum Cake

Plums replace sour cherries in an updated cake for the holiday.

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Recipes: Robiola-Stuffed Tomatoes

A recipe for four.

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Recipes: Smoke-Roasted Chicken Thighs With Paprika

Serve hot, warm or at room temperature, with lemon wedges, sprinkled with mint leaves.

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Recipes for Health: Grilled Leeks With Romesco Sauce

Steamed and grilled leeks are paired with romesco sauce, a nut-thickened pepper purée.

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Recipes for Health: Grilled Mushrooms in Foil Packets

Prepare these packets at home, then toss them on the grill at a cookout.

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Peach Compote With Rose Water

A peach-and-rose-water compote poured over a grilled rose-water poundcake doubles the pleasure. But it’s also fine with ice cream.

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Recipe: Grilled Rose-Water Poundcake

A toasty rose-water poundcake adds a fine finish to a summer meal.

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Recipe: Moroccan-Style Carrot Salad

In this classic carrot salad, rose water provides a delicate balance to the earthy cumin and coriander.

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Recipe: Pairings: Brown Bread With Buckwheat and Seaweed

To go with your Muscadet and oysters, an elemental brown bread made with kelp (for a briny touch) and buckwheat flour (for a nutty edge).

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Recipe: Bucatini With Red Clam Sauce

A good jarred tomato sauce is finished with fresh clams, some chopped and some served in the shell.

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Recipe: Tunisian Carrot Salad With Cumin, Coriander and Caraway

A carrot dish spiced with Tunisian flavors.

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Recipe: Grilled Lebanese Flatbread

In 90 minutes, you’ll have eight flatbreads.

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