Thursday, February 11, was not Lex Grant’s day. The chef arrived at her commissary kitchen at 5:30 a.m. to discover it had flooded completely. At 1:30 p.m., she had to be at the Pearl District bar River Pig with sheet trays full of rice and peas, cabbage, and Jamaican beef …

Just two blocks off Monument Square in Portland, Maine, downhill from the public library, sits a squat, gray flatiron building. Inside is a soup kitchen that has provided three meals a day, every day, to hungry Mainers in its oft-crowded dining room for more than 39 years. The staff is …

Yesterday, when pro-Trump extremists launched an unprecedented siege on the U.S. Capitol, José Andrés did what he always does in a crisis: he found someone to feed. After a mob that included MAGA-chanting conspiracy theorists and neo-Nazis mounted an insurrectionist takeover at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police …

My fantasy kitchen is filled with Smeg appliances: a mint-green refrigerator, an accompanying mint-green dishwasher, even a mint-green espresso machine, and I don’t drink coffee. In my head, I offset the toothpaste palette with pastel accents: a cream-colored stand mixer and a pale pink blender, like the one in Brendan …

I can’t recall the ungodly hour that a delivery person brought me my first “Viagra” from Empanada Mama, an almost-24-hour Latin diner whose arepas I sometimes find half-eaten on my mattress the next morning. What I can affirm, however, is that I patronized the Hell’s Kitchen mainstay for at least …