Author: Jackie Burrell

The Big Apple has a big sandwich culture, from the deli fare of the lower East Side to the tea sandwiches of the upper. Now Sara Reistad-Long and Jean Tang have teamed up with Gotham’s glitziest chefs to create the definitive guide to the humble and not-so-humble sandwich. You won’t find any PBJs or pastrami…

It’s official: Quinoa has achieved cult status. The ancient Incan grain has captured the public’s imagination with its mix of nutritional superpowers, delicious flavor and rainbow colors, popping up on trendy restaurant menus and holistic-health websites alike. With all nine essential amino acids, it’s a complete protein — like meat — which makes it the…

First came the Thanksgiving hot lines. Then the turkey tweets.Now, there’s an app for that pie, the marshmallow-studded yam casserole, even the carving dilemma.Where once you relied on your old school butcher or a frantic call to Mom to solve menu mysteries and holiday cooking snafus, now Martha Stewart and Food Network are a mere…

Peter Piper may have picked a peck of pickled peppers, but Pete Aiello prefers his in their glorious prepickled state.The owner and general manager of Gilroy, Calif.’s Uesugi Farms likes his glossy green and red peppers stuffed, sliced into salads or basted with olive oil and tossed on a grill. And he should know.We may…

As we head into the heart of summer, we’re spreading out the cotton tablecloths for a season’s worth of picnics and celebrations.The trick, of course, is making those events memorable and delicious, without making them labor-intensive as well. And a spectacular dessert that showcases summer’s bounty leaves a gorgeous, lasting impression.So, we turned to a…

TRACY, Calif. • The green stalks poke upward, fingerlike, from their mounds, their purple tips vivid in the early morning light. Bent-over farmworkers move from row to row, their long-handled knives cutting asparagus spears one by one.If you bought your bundle of spears, bound with a purple rubber band, at a supermarket or Costco —…

Most New Year’s resolution lists include booze bans, butter vetoes and similar draconian dietary restrictions. Small wonder, then, that most resolutions don’t last too long. But take a page from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Ed Cassano and your eat-green resolution could become a delectable, sustainable and deprivation-free way of life.Cassano oversees the aquarium’s Seafood Watch…

Saving the oceans, on bite at a timeMost New Year’s resolution lists include booze bans, butter vetoes and similar draconian dietary restrictions. Small wonder, then, that most resolutions don’t last too long. But take a page from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Ed Cassano and your eat-green resolution could become a delectable, sustainable and deprivation-free way…

Slow cookers are surging back to popularity. Gone are the days of cream of mushroom soup-coated roasts, simmered into bland oblivion. Now, foods as fresh and complex as creamy risottos and braised Basque chicken have ended up in the slow cooker — and the results are downright yummy.But talk to any professional chef, including three…

We all know the theory: Families who dine together have kids with better grades and healthier outlooks. But we also know the guilty reality. Getting those overbooked kids and overextended parents to the dinner table takes the scheduling skills of an airport control tower these days — and you can forget what’s on the plate.That’s…