Talks & Entertainment

It’s 4:00 pm on a Tuesday. What’s for dinner? Don’t panic. Whether you’re seeking a standout meal for one, crowd-pleasers for picky kids, or something special for company, New York Times Cooking makes meal planning easy with more than 23,000 recipes to explore. In Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat, Emily Weinstein—Editor in Chief of Cooking and Food—has curated some of the greatest hit dishes from Melissa Clark, Eric Kim, Yewande Komolafe, Ali Slagle, and more.  

Organized by main ingredient, length of cooking time, and wow factor, you’ll find 15-minute recipes like beef short rib rice bowls, easy clean-up sheet-pan dishes like feta with chickpeas and tomatoes, and minimum effort meals like San Francisco-style Vietnamese American garlic noodles. Alongside each recipe, mouthwatering photos and comments from the NYT Cooking community inspire new twists and ideas.  

Weinstein is the author of the New York Times recipe newsletter “Five Weeknight Dishes,” which reaches millions of readers every week. She’ll be joined by New York Times staff writer Eric Kim, author of the bestselling cookbook Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home. Kim hosts videos on NYT Cooking’s YouTube channel and writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine. 

Weinstein and Kim will be in conversation with Carey Polis, a freelance food editor and consultant, and the author of the “Cheese, Book, Restaurant, Thing” newsletter on Substack.

Book signing to follow. 

This program will be ASL-interpreted for the in-person audience. To sit in the interpreted section or to access the interpreted feed virtually, contact Amanda.