A family roast chicken becomes a sheet-pan dinner
Melissa revisited her mother’s roast chicken with a sheet-pan version that brings chicken legs, carrots and onions together in one pan.
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Melissa Clark is a New York Times food writer, cookbook author and cooking-video host who shares recipes for the meals people make at home.
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An 11-city book tour is on the way
In her Cooking newsletter, Melissa announced the first leg of her tour for The Big Book of Dinner. The cookbook is due November 17, with more touring planned for spring.
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Restaurant broccoli, adapted for home
Melissa shared a simpler version of the crispy broccoli she enjoyed at ABC Kitchens in Brooklyn, bringing a restaurant dish into the home kitchen.
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Taking the helm of the Cooking newsletter
Melissa announced that she would host the flagship New York Times Cooking newsletter five days a week. She marked the change by revisiting the polenta and fried eggs that launched A Good Appetite in 2007.
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Frying chicken with Jennifer Garner
Melissa welcomed Jennifer Garner to NYT Cooking to make Nashville-style hot fried chicken, using a recipe adapted from Rodney Frazer of Peaches HotHouse in Brooklyn.
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