Articles by Ellen Kanner

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Nigel Slater

The professional amateur

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“I can’t sometimes imagine why I am still, all these years on, excited and interested in food.”

Brisket in bereavement

Why we eat when we grieve

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The rituals of mourning.

Jacques Pépin

The technician

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“It’s repeat, repeat, repeat … those techniques until they become part of yourself, your DNA.”

Judy Rodgers

The comfort foodie

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“That’s how traditional cuisine happens — they do things over and over and distill what’s best.”

Melissa Clark

Your best friend in the kitchen

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“We are better people when we eat well. I really, really believe that.”

The chi of the tomato

Life force in a fruit

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We are what we eat, and right now we should eat big, ripe, luscious tomatoes.

Beans and ricely yours

How to cook more than a wolf

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There are splashier dishes, but none that feeds us on so deep a level.

Gabrielle Hamilton

The chef-memoirist

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“I’ve learned to pay attention to what’s actually going on rather than what I wish was going on.”

Party girl

Saved by the panzanella

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How her dinners for four turn into free-for-alls for 14.

Child’s play

Fearless in the kitchen

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A reader masters a cheese soufflé at the tender age of nine.

Madhur Jaffrey

The accidental cook

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“The most important thing with Indian food is: Don’t be frightened.”

Mark Kurlansky

The food sociologist

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“Conversation really gets better when you’re all eating.”

A Tokyo Thanksgiving

Turning to tradition in a faraway place

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It’s the spirit that counts.

Mark Bittman

The minimalist

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“You eat more plants and eat less of everything else. That’s what it all boils down to.”

A definitive vegan zucchini bread

Lemon lifts the flavor

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Ellen ponders the universe, obsession, and zucchini bread.

Tal Ronnen

The vegan chef

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“For me, it’s about creating food I missed eating as a meat-eater.”

The bean field

She’s growing more than food

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Ellen meditates on cultivating community — and beans.

Still, life with eggplant

Coming to the world fresh and hopeful

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The amazing properties of eggplant.

Molly Wizenberg

The blogger

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“The most interesting thing to me is the context in which real people sit down at real tables and eat real food.”

Roots in Miami

Fresh produce in an underserved neighborhood

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A new farmers’ market, Roots in the City, takes hold in Miami.

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