Tucked into a nondescript Bainbridge Street storefront 30 some odd yards east of Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy, Doc’s Cake Shop is a sweet Southern breeze in dessert form. From the door, one is ...

The legendary dark chocolate layer cake has become a hit the world over, with variations available far and wide. Here's where to try it.

Actually, it’s an abandoned eight-story factory near the Marcy Houses project in South Williamsburg, where drug giant Pfizer opened for business more than a century and a half ago, stamping out Advil, ...

That’s why Red Hot Kitchen, while not an encyclopedia of chili sauces from the continent, introduces unfamiliar readers to a broad swath of sauces, from Indonesia and Malaysia’s sambals to Thailand’s ...

Allen Katz sits in a broad-backed wooden chair in the Shanty, the bar attached to the New York Distilling Company, the Williamsburg distillery that he co-founded in 2011 with Tom and Bill Potter. He ...

While relying less on foods sourced from animals is a good overall strategy to tread more lightly, the truth about the sustainability of each product is complicated.

The Damascus Bakery has been headquartered at 56 Gold Street since 1979, but third-generation baker and co-owner Edward Mafoud is quick to note they have been making pita in Brooklyn since 1930. That ...

Popeyes’ new fried chicken sandwich has caused quite a stir. Photo via Tyrgyzistan on Flickr. To understand what it means to serve a local fried-chicken sandwich at a restaurant that takes such issues ...

Harry Rosenblum wants to help people become more self-sufficient. That’s part of the reason that he co-founded his cooking school, The Brooklyn Kitchen, in 2006, and part of the reason he’s written ...

Not only did the country's most esteemed drinks historian, a Brooklyn native, write us a thoroughly researched history of the Brooklyn Cocktail, he also furnished not one but eight historical recipes ...

Originally called “Hots and Potatoes” at the restaurant that invented it—Nick Tahou Hots, reputedly in 1918—the dish is a rib-sticking pileup of starch, meat, onions, and sauce. Colloquially called ...

Ten years ago, when Williamsburg was well on its gentrification journey but was still without an Apple Store, the Four Horsemen opened on Grand Street and changed what wine could be. Originally a ...