What a luxurious working-day lunch. It’s casual and uncomplicated to make — an open-faced sandwich — but on top of this bread lies slices of home-cured wild-caught red Alaska salmon surrounded by jewels from the garden. Funny to think that cured salmon (not smoked, but similar in texture and taste, sans smokiness) was once a [...]

What wouldn’t be a good filling for a sheet of nori and seasoned sushi rice? That was the question of the night at my latest Low-Brow Sushi class at the Brooklyn Kitchen a couple weeks ago. In the class, we rolled said staples with tomatoes, lettuce and bacon for the ultimate BLT Roll, chopped lobster [...]