Darkness has been a source of inspiration for centuries. Black backgrounds were a mainstay at the heart of Dutch artists’ obsessions with painting still-life fruit and anyone who took high school photography knows that taking pictures is nothing but the camera's aperature, balancing light and darkness. But highlighting darkness has largely been ignored by the culinary world, until the Instagram-fed craze of charcoal ice cream and black pizzas filled our feeds.
Black martini, please
Most spirits tend to be on the clear side — or at the very least, you can see through them. But after spending many years in the bar...
Black beans and Jalapeños, two ways
Chef Jose Hadad got his first taste of professional cooking at the age of 17. But it was long before then that he became hooked on being a...
Black Current Vinegar
It was half a century ago, but Pete Bradford still remembers walking into the cooler of his granfather's butchery and seeing two wooden...
