Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Working for Mario Batali meant being a wingman, a punching bag, and a voracious lush who rarely said “no.” ...

Health wars: Mass General Brigham will pour $400 million into its new cancer institute, which may open before rival Dana ...

I am constantly amazed at not only the number of classes and workshops underway at Read It & Eat Bookshop, but the breadth of the programming. Read It & Eat ...

She’ll talk about it all at Brookline Booksmith alongside restaurateur Tiffani Faison on Friday, March 21. We chatted about the book in advance of the event.

After years of assisting Mario Batali and then Anthony Bourdain, Woolever has written a memoir that’s tricky to classify and ...

Care and Feeding” is an account of Laurie Woolever’s time as an assistant to two towering figures in the food world - Mario ...

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective.

On her first day working as Mario Batali’s assistant in 1999, Laurie Woolever, then 25, got in a cab with the famous chef to ...

When the Enquirer and other publication reached out to say they would be publishing photos of Argento with the other man, ...

In Care and Feeding, released on March 13, Woolever describes working in New York's restaurants in the 90s, being groped by ...

In her new memoir, “Care and Feeding,” Laurie Woolever looks back on 20 tumultuous, exhilarating years with two of America’s biggest celebrity chefs. Laurie Woolever had a front seat to the ...