Food

New Year's Eve dinner offerings from Lulu Kitchen, Nick and Toni's, and Bell and Anchor are on the table as well as a virtual cooking class from Stefanie Sacks.

Deep winter is a good time to get into dips and fondues. They are easy and communal (for your safe little pod at home), and can be rich, decadent, and celebratory or junky and naughty for couch-tatering and watching sports.

Despite the pandemic's impact to business, the nonprofit South Fork Bakery is striving to continue its core mission: to offer meaningful employment to adults with disabilities.

Lunch specials at Ed's Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor and a new trio of seasonal cookbooks from Sybille van Kempen.

South Fork restaurants continue to serve up intriguing options for Christmas and Christmas Eve. It is best to pay close attention to ordering deadlines and make reservations early.

When it comes to holiday food gifts, everyone does the same thing. With a little extra money and time, why not make slightly more extravagant and more original food gifts this season?

Delicious holiday dinners to go, new chicken "Coop" in Southampton, Instacart is revving up on the South Fork, and much more

In Holiday Baking Part Deux, students will learn how to build on the basics to make more elaborate holiday desserts and pastries. The first rule is "learn the basics." The next rule is "practice, practice, practice."

Many brilliantly talented chefs declare "I hate to bake; I can't do pastry." That is because while cooking and baking are life skills and arts, pastry and baking are also science and chemistry and require precision without variation. To start with basic baking, you don't need a lot of equipment, but you do need the correct equipment.

Fish and farmers markets through the winter holidays, wine tastings virtually, dinner specials, and more

Phil Hartman's "Anal Retentive Chef" on "Saturday Night Live" kept cleaning up his counter space, agonizing over unsymmetrically cut bell peppers, uneven numbers of ladyfingers, and disposing bits of food in such an elaborate and fussy way, he never got around to actually cooking. There's nothing wrong with that, except for not beginning or completing a dish.

Gurney's provides new ways to socialize outdoors in bungalows with fire pits and Guild Hall will hold a benefit wine dinner in Montauk.