Food

One of the pleasures of "reviewing" a new Ina Garten cookbook is that her cookbooks are pretty much flawless. So it's not a chore or a review, it's just me with a cup of tea or a fancy cocktail, making notes and muttering to myself "THAT sounds good!"

On the border of a busy parking lot, not to mention in the midst of a terrifying pandemic, brave professionals in the restaurant business are doing everything they can to make your dining experience fun, flavorful, and above all, safe.

The year 2020 will be infamous for many things, but one positive aspect could be the 2020 vintage on the South Fork, where the warm and sunny weather created "pristine" and "intense" fruit now being harvested.

Three area restaurant chefs share their favorite recipes that take advantage of the best of the fall season using South Fork seafood and farm produce.

While the cancellation of big summer events and limits on social gatherings put a major dent in their business, caterers on the East End report that things are picking up in a different way as wedding couples and private clients find ways to cut down their guests lists to hold more intimate celebrations.

New specials from Main Street Tavern in Amagansett and deals on smoothies and acai bowls at Organic Krush

The East Hampton Farmers Market, which had ended its summer season on Sept. 1, was back in business on Sunday in East Hampton Village's Reutershan parking lot. It will be held there weekly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Dec. 20.

Harvest lunches and tastings at Wolffer, a tented Moby's for the cooler months, and specials at Fresno

A new lunch menu for Main Street Tavern, Stirring the Pot returns, and more

At the beginning of September, Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences released three new varieties of apples.

Temperatures are cooling and concern over the coronavirus persists as fall begins, but restaurants in the Town of East Hampton may have an opportunity to extend an unprecedented tourist season by continuing to offer as much as 100 percent of their seating capacity outside.

Rosh Hashana menus and specials for home and out, an early celebration of Oktoberfest, a virtual wine tasting and more

What was missing this year in the world of East End food events and how to recreate some of their specialties at home

Bridgehampton Inn's new menu for September, and ayurvedic food delivered to your door.

With an influx of vacationers, migrant Manhattanites, and day trippers who ventured east this summer, restaurateurs worked tirelessly to apply the state's health guidelines in ways that could fit their new business models, but even the most prepared in the restaurant industry sometimes struggled to keep up.

The pepper, which is a fruit, has more than 50,000 varieties, ranging from the popular and humble bell pepper to the wickedly hot Carolina Reaper.

Greek to go and Greek to eat outdoors, along with delivered barbecue, and a celebration of the U.S. Open with commemorative drink and glass.

An appreciation of Julia Reed: author, wit, journalist, Southerner, cook, keen observer of everything from politics to music, and East Hampton visitor. She died on Aug. 28 at the age of 59.

New Lobster House in Sag Harbor, meal packages from Art of Eating, and Ess-a-Bagel comes east

The three cookbooks in the "Farm Series Cookbook: Summer" each focus on a different month and a particular farm: the Green Thumb in Water Mill for June; Foster Farm in Sagaponack for July, and Pike Farms, also in Sagaponack, for August. They were composed with the help of Licia Kassim Householder.

A Greek treat, new dinner items on the Wolffer Kitchen menu, a catered dinner, and more

Chances are, if you have enough sun in your backyard you are growing tomatoes this summer. If not, you have no doubt found a staggering array of them available at every farmer's market, farm stand, and even a few grocery stores.

A new pastry chef for Almond and L&W Market and new dinner specials in East Hampton

It is always great fun to pose a food question to friends on Facebook. The question this time was along the lines of "have you found yourself buying interesting, esoteric, unusual foodstuffs online lately? Have you accidentally purchased more than you meant to?"

Whoever it was at Hampton Racquet who thought to bring Viet Cafe of New York City out to do a pop-up V Cafe at their Center Court snack bar is a genius. The food is fresh, light, and inexpensive.

A new virtual barbecue experience, cookies at the doorstep, Dopo in Southampton, and more

New Vietnamese at the Hampton Racquet Club, Moby's has a market, and new specials at Bridgehampton Inn and Nick and Toni's

A recent cold soup recipe testing tear (vichyssoise, cantaloupe, beet-jalapeño, Sungold tomato, and zucchini-basil) has been easy, fun, very inspiring, and economical, as well.

A "sacred sound journey" was followed by lunch at Shou Sugi Ban House, a Japanese-inspired "luxury wellness resort and spa" in Water Mill, where the consulting chef, co-founder of Noma (!), Mads Refslund, was on site cooking.

Union Burger expands to steaks and sushi, Main Street Tavern opens, Carissa's Bakery's new delivery service, a happy hour at Bostwick's, and more