The Delicious Best

 There are a lot of lists right now , extolling the best of this year. From best cars to best actors everything is being ranked.Ot's no different with food. The year produces favorite recipes and dishes. What are the best?

The New YorkTimes Food section asked the same question and came up with an interesting list in today's issue. There are four catagories, one featuring top restaurants and dishes,most popular recipes, standout cookbooks and memorable wines. what were the hottest eateries and dishes? The restaurants were all Manhattan based ,Yoshino was voted one of the best with its' French food ideas woven into traditional Japanese dishes. There is a vichysoisse filled with hairy crab and a heap of ostera cavier on it. He takes tamago, a sweet egg omelet and puts burnt sugar on it like a creme brule. Claud offers FRench bistro cuisine with escargots  refashioned into buttery panko crumbed croquettes. The indivudual dishes are heavenly too such as the rice balls at Cafe Spaghetti and the quenelle de brochat at Le Gratin. There were also budget bites such as the Rowdy Rooster that features a mashed potato sandwich (!!) and Sanmiwigo's Dumpling House withtheir variety of their dumplings. The recipes are just as tasty. Home chefs should try brothy Thai curry with silken tofu and herbs or Greek chicken with cucumber feta salad. There's also a good stuffing recipe and a sticky coconut and rice.

What were the best cookbooks fo this year? There are so many to choose from. If you;'re big on barbecue then buy Kevin Bludsos with Kevin Noah's Bludsos BBQ Cookbook: A Family Affair In Smoke and Soul. Contributor Sara Bonisteel recommneds this book chock full of shrimp and grits along with a brisket.For those everyday cook's try the former The Great British Baking Show's winner Ruby Tandoh's Cook As You Are.Recipes for Real Life, Hungry  Cooks and  Messy Kitchens It's a gathering of simple and tasty recipes with coommon and uncommon ingredients.Bakers will love Jessie Sheehan's Snackable Bakes 100 Easy-Peasy Recipes For Exceotionally Scrumptuous Sweets and Treats which has all sorts fo yummy recipes for quick breads , muffins and cupcakes.You need something to drink with all that food. That's where Eric Asimov's wine list comes in handy.One wine recommneded was eighty years old, produced in the middle of the Second World war!!!It was a 1942 Chateau  Clemens Barsac. It was processed when France was under Nazi occupation which adds to its' story.Try the Chilean wine Herrara Alvarado Cuegode vaca MargValley  vointage 2020 an outstanding Pinot Noir.

These are the best of the best votied by The New York Times Food section. Try them all. Will they beon your best of thebest for 2022?