The Easiest Paella Comes From a Kit

As easy one-dish meals go, paella deserves to be a kitchen standby. But the notion of so many ingredients make it seem daunting. Not so: It can be simple weeknight supper. Meg Grace Larcom, the corporate chef for the Boqueria restaurants in New York, Chicago and Washington, is ready to show you how to assemble…

The Tea’s the Thing

In Act IV, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” there’s much talk by Titania and Oberon of flowers and herbs. Harney & Sons, a tea company in Millerton, N.Y., has taken those poetic lines as its cue for a lovely, fragrant blend — including black and oolong teas, with orange peel, ginger root,…

A Miami Market Where the Fish Fly

MIAMI — Customers traveling by foot or convertible will hear Plaza Seafood Market shortly after it comes into view. The rhythmic thud of long, heavy knives cracking fish spines, landing hard on a cutting board, grows louder when you reach the parking lot, provided there are no motorcycles revving nearby, drowning everything else out. The…

Head Into the Kitchen

How goes it? These are challenging times, of course, made more so by the newness of the year that brings with it hope and optimism but also hard work: your new fitness challenge; your focus on self-care; your home office to-do list; your job search; your corporate goals for 2021. Some have stopped drinking for…

A Colonoscopy Alternative Comes Home

The Task Force has found several kinds of screening tests effective, but the ones used most for people at average risk are colonoscopy, at a recommended 10-year interval, or FIT annually. A newer entry, an at-home test sold under the brand name Cologuard that detects blood and cancer biomarkers in stool, may be used every…