My friend Jose Carlos Capel swings his arm around my shoulder. “Welcome to the tapeo of the future,” he shouts, spraying a mojito into his mouth. From a glass atomizer. In a compulsively social ...

Tomatoes are one of the most used ingredients in my kitchen. Fresh tomatoes and all their canned cousins, including tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, stewed tomatoes — even ketchup — are ...

Two bunches of lemon thyme, a pound of sweet butter, two plump chickens, a ball of fresh mozzarella and an armload of bright bell peppers. I pick these up at the market, and with the odds and ends I ...