Learn Online About Canning Safety

The ground rules for safe canning and preserving have been adjusted over time, as science weighs in. The Penn State Extension will give up-to-date information in a series of webinars for the next time you eye baskets of ripe tomatoes and Kirby cucumbers at farm stands or gather them from your garden. On Wednesday, canning…

New York Restaurants Share Their Recipes

“Bite Sized,” a bright digital cookbook and a fund-raiser for Relief Opportunities for All Restaurants (ROAR), has a finite collection of recipes from just 17 restaurants. They’re all tenants of buildings owned by Brookfield Properties, a real estate development and management company, and the book is an effort by the landlord to help restaurants during…

From New Zealand, a Succulent Smoked Salmon

Regal, a brand of a New Zealand company that farm-raises king salmon, has introduced prepared fillets. The company, which also cultivates the highly regarded Ora King salmon, also from New Zealand, and has a green (best choice) rating from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch for its fish, calls this new line wood-roasted. It’s actually…

Raising Relief Funds for Beirut

Despite their own economic worries during the pandemic, several restaurateurs are stepping up to provide aid to Beirut, Lebanon, after the devastation from the explosions two weeks ago. Philippe Massoud, a native of Beirut who is the chef and owner of Ilili in NoMad, along with his brother and the restaurant’s co-owner, Alexander Massoud, and…

A Club for Wine Lovers

Pressoir.wine, an organization that holds wine events, is an extension of two wine extravaganzas — La Paulée, a series of annual celebrations, and La Fête de Champagne for Champagne tastings and dinners — founded by the sommelier Daniel Johnnes. Pressoir puts on wine trips, tastings and other events, and, with Covid-19, online Zoom wine classes…