Food & Cooking

If you’re the proud owner of a gas stove, you know that pan-fried food items tend to cook at different rates. Especially when you’re prepping a lot of food at once (fritters! pot stickers! veggie burgers!), some things are going to start browning faster than others. And that’s why owning the Our Place Fry Deck ($30) is maybe the best kitchen accessory since—*gasp*—the air fryer.

One of those beautifully simple inventions, the fry deck sits on top of the fan-favorite Our Place Always Pan ($145) and makes food prep and cooking for large parties simple. Here’s how

A team of more than a dozen volunteers work the assembly line, packing up 35-pound boxes filled with cereal, peanut butter, milk and fruit for low-income seniors while construction crews install a massive 4,300-square-foot freezer that will soon be stocked with meat and other frozen foods. 

Island Harvest Food Bank’s new 43,000-square foot warehouse in Melville, which will host its official grand opening Thursday, is nearly double the size of its former headquarters in Hauppauge, with additional office space for training programs, cooking demonstrations and computer training.

The $8.1 million facility on Spagnoli Road, which first opened early last year, is greatly needed in the community, officials said.

With inflation continuing to dig a deeper hole in the pockets of Long Islanders, and many still struggling with the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity is a growing problem in the region.

“The demand is going up and so the

Very rarely does an elected official achieve the level of distinct coolness that Barack Obama did when sitting across the table from Anthony Bourdain in Vietnam. After sharing a meal with the former president, the celebrity chef tweeted out a photo of the viral moment. The caption simply read, “Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer.”

However, that doesn’t deter politicians from trying to capture similar magic while attempting to bond with constituents over food, often with fickle results. In any given election cycle, it’s almost a given that someone will embarrass themselves somewhere on the campaign trail while eating or drinking. 

Sometimes the embarrassment is the kind of low-level cringe that some felt when former Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand danced with a glass of whiskey after working a shift at an Iowa gay bar (whiskey is her favorite “comfort food”) or when Andrew Yang attempted