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The pizzas lean more in the direction of adventurous than gourmet, with oddball ingredients playing together nicely.

“Our big push right now is to get our product into shelf-stable bottles,” says Agnew, who uses one of their top sellers in this recipe.

The staff of Late Harvest Kitchen holds a late-night lunch once a month.

How Hurst’s 15 Bean soup—the nation’s top-selling bag of branded beans—gets from the company’s venerable downtown processing plant to stores worldwide.

Including deviled eggs piled with fat salmon roe at Eat + Drink.

Almost as soon as he installed himself in the kitchen in late August, Carlos Salazar was coining new dinner dishes that, while adding sophistication and breadth to Rook’s already funky menu, furthered Ed Rudisell’s goal of making Asian street-food standards worthy of a night on the town.

Weekend dinners offer a short list of precision-plated entrees in addition to a well-vetted selection of charcuterie and cheeses.

Updates include leveling the well-worn floor and restoring the roof, which features a terrace overlooking the town’s Lincoln Park.

Including smoked salmon eggs Benedict, sporting textbook poached eggs and sunny yellow hollandaise, at Dufour’s in Irvington.

Think you love food? These fans of flavor display their food-related tattoos and explain the significance behind them.

Many frequent shoppers will attest, if you see something worthwhile among the racks, snag it, because tomorrow it’ll be history. And carefully check expiration dates, as many of the items are past their prime.

Including a soul-warming Maple-pecan Hot Toddy, made of infused Maker’s Mark, maple syrup, and muddled orange, at Eat + Drink, Taste Cafe & Marketplace’s new conjoined cocktail lounge.

Her love for the macaron began on a flight out of Zurich, when the captain brought some of the dainty, melt-in-your-mouth cookies onboard. “I had never seen them before,” she says. “And I ate the entire box before we even took off.”

These restaurants do the cooking for you.

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