By CAROL LEE
Ten years ago, when we first polled readers about their favorite Thanksgiving pie, more than half chose pumpkin (a quarter voted for apple, and a little less for pecan). We opened the polls again and found that pecan and apple are gaining steam! Maybe we’re getting our fill from all those pumpkin spice treats?
You can serve your next pasta dinner with an art history lesson on the side: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has collaborated with pasta company Di Martino on a limited-edition tin featuring designs from 16th-century Italian pottery in The Met’s collection. A box comes with a pound each of linguine, tortiglioni, elicoidali, fresine, bucatini and penne, and a portion of the $65 price goes to the museum. The tins are sold at The Met Store and at pastadimartino.com.
The next generation of pizza delivery has arrived: Domino’s now has nationwide “pinpoint delivery” to places without addresses, so you can get pizza brought to you at a park bench, bus stop, golf course or anywhere you happen to be. You just mark your location on a map on the Domino’s app and await your pie!
It’s cider season, and a new version has all the apple experts talking. One of George Washington’s favorite drinks was a hard cider made with the Harrison cider apple, a variety known for its rich, sweet flavor. The apple disappeared by the 20th century (partly due to Prohibition) but it was rediscovered by an orchardist in 1976. In 2021, Ironbound Farm and Ciderhouse in Asbury, NJ, had a harvest big enough to produce and sell the cider, and this fall three varieties are available for shipping. From $17 for 4 cans; ironboundhardcider.com
Now that the USDA has approved its first cell-cultured meat, Michelin-starred chefs have started working their magic with it. At China Chilcano in Washington, DC, José Andrés is serving Good Meat’s cultivated chicken marinated in anticucho sauce (top). And at Bar Crenn in San Francisco, chef Dominique Crenn is frying Upside Foods’s lab-grown chicken in a recado negro–infused tempura batter (bottom). You’ll have to wait to experiment at home; the meat isn’t yet in grocery stores.
PASTA TIN AND CHICKEN WING: PHILIP FRIEDMAN. APPLE PIE AND PECAN PIE: GETTY IMAGES. PUMPKIN PIE: ALAMY.