The poet Emily Dickinson was an avid baker, and, on the back of a recipe card for coconut cake, she wrote these opening lines: The Things that never can come back, are several —Childhood — some forms of Hope — the Dead — But while her gifts as a poet are clear here, she expresses…
Brussels, long the realm of stuffy French restaurants packed with gray-flannel-suited diplomats, has suddenly gone bold and bright. Thanks to a crop of young chefs with iconoclastic ideas about flavor and sustainability, the city, in thrall to the rich sauces of Gaul for nearly two centuries, has emerged as one of the most exciting, and…
“Buy, buy, buy,” a bargoer shouted just after 6:30 on a recent Wednesday evening. He grabbed two shot glasses, vodka sluicing over his hands. The 411, a pub in London, usually sells about £3,000 worth of drinks (about $3,800) on a weeknight. But on another recent Wednesday, it brought in £18,300 — more than $23,000…
Good morning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all those who celebrate. I like corned beef and cabbage myself for the holiday — Irish American food to ship up to Boston with, soda bread on the side. But I get it if that’s not in the cards, either for reasons of memory (the dank, humid scent…
I always get a kick from cooking with booze. “Shots!” I’ll announce to nobody in particular as I add the tequila for salted margarita bars. And, without fail, “one for you, one for me” as I deglaze my skillet with a glass of white wine. So “sláinte,” I will say, as I mix Irish cream…
What someone buys at the grocery store can say a lot about who they are. Who hasn’t peeked into the cart of the person in front of you at checkout and tried to piece together their life? These days, grocery shopping can bring its fair share of challenges: Everything is more expensive. Supply chain disruptions…
Good morning. How are you doing? This week marks four years since many of us went into lockdown after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic. Amid the fear and illness there would turn out to be, for some, scant pleasures: fragrant, crusty sourdough boules, long walks on quiet streets, seeking…
In the “Dune” movies, a gigantic sandworm can rise from the desert and devour soldiers and military vehicles in its gaping maw. In real life, humans watching movies devour popcorn. These two ideas have been combined to spawn the “Dune” popcorn bucket, a sandworm-shaped tub that is having a cultural moment. The bucket arrives on…
Restaurant pop-ups, by their very nature, are ephemeral and hard to pin down. But they can also be destinations for some of New York’s most creative and inspired dining as the chefs that run them aren’t bogged down by the minutiae that plague brick-and-mortar restaurants. Sometimes, pop-ups become popular, permanent restaurants, as in the cases…
To open my freezer door is to ask for trouble. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to catch the bag of frozen dumplings or compost scraps as it tumbles from the precarious perch atop a lumpy bag of ice. If you’re not so lucky, the batch of 50/50 martinis you made for the party will…