Like Europe, South Asia has a variety of sophisticated local, regional, and ethnic cuisines. The most familiar and recognizable cuisine of the subcontinent is Indian cuisine, but some of what passes for Indian food is actually Bangladeshi or Pakistani...

Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. Religious food laws can also exercise a strong...

Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges.Though only 410 feet up, there's no gas cooking because of safety concerns. All...

Creationists are buying up roadside dinosaur parks, and turning them into something all together different. (Reason) The "hipification of the Upper East Side?" If you say so... (The Village Voice) It is unlikely any traditional meat-slinging deli can afford $36,000 a month for the...

On my first visit to Yumcha, a new Chinese restaurant in the West Village, I sat at the counter. Five cooks were working at breakneck speed in the open kitchen-the scene was almost comic, like a movie on fast-forward. As I watched the cooks at...

Bistro du Vent was packed with food people the other night. Hardly surprising, since the restaurant is the latest project of Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich and their partner, David Pasternack, the chef at Esca. With a team like this, expectations were high.While we waited...