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Emily Green is a Times staff writer. It took 11 years for Simon Hopkinson’s peculiar blue book “Roast Chicken and Other Stories” to make a bestseller list. When it finally did, it came out of a dusty ...

The other day, a friend who had moved to Santa Fe was in town so I asked him over to dinner. It was a weeknight and I didn’t have a whole lot of time to fuss in the kitchen, and also, because it just ...

The Book Bench is reviewing new and forthcoming cookbooks this week. In this post: “The Vegetarian Option,” by Simon Hopkinson, and “Seasonal Fruit Desserts,” by Deborah Madison. Hosting a dinner ...

Apparently, I’m eating for 30. Most Americans barely eat a lamb chop a year. Last year, our consumption dropped below a pound of lamb per person for the first time since such record-keeping began.

And then I see spinach — big, fat, dark-green leaves in a lusty-looking bunch. Yes, that’s what sounds good. Spinach, and lots of it. There’s nothing easier to cook, and yet it’s not so obvious how to ...

It would have been about 20 years ago that I was first given to eat the curious agretti (sometimes called barba di frate—monk’s beard—in other regions of Italy) by the legendary Italian cook Franco ...

Simon Hopkinson's recipe for roast peppers is perfect as an antipasto or a light lunch.This recipe is ridiculously easy, roasting a halved tomato snuggled inside the pepper and then topped with salty ...