As the curry house established itself as a British institution, more flourished around Shish Mahal. In 1979, when Mr. Aslam renovated the place, he reopened with a clever gimmick: all of the original 1964 prices, for a limited time. This led to long, frenzied lines down the block. In photos taken around this time, Mr.…
Sure, feeding a family is no joke, but have you tried cooking for yourself lately? It can be just as challenging (and daunting) to cook up a fast, easy and, most important, delicious dinner for one or two. Cue the air fryer. Think of it as a more space-efficient convection oven that slashes the cooking…
At 1 o’clock every weekday, a cowbell rings inside the Extreme Cashmere headquarters in Amsterdam, calling the company’s 20 employees to lunch. A communal meal has been a ritual for Saskia Dijkstra since she founded the knitwear brand in 2016, after 20 years spent sourcing cashmere for luxury labels including Jil Sander and Joseph. Even…
LONDON — Jordan Frieda knew he was struggling to find waiters and kitchen workers for his three Italian restaurants. But the depth of the crisis did not become clear until he hired a recruiter to try to lure people from other restaurants. Of the 100 or so people his agent typically contacted in a day,…
In some of my earliest kitchen memories, I’m handed a pile of dough scraps to roll and cut into circles and stars. I glue them onto shiny, sealed pies with a bit of slippery egg wash — a small but meaningful contribution to our holiday pies. When I make pies now, I hand off the…
I’ve waited in line in Los Angeles for wobbly brisket and tacos and French fries covered in mayonnaise, for chiles rellenos and warm pastries, for fried chicken and ice cream and bagels. But on a recent Saturday morning, I waited half an hour for a rainbow sandwich. It was not the kind I remember from…
The year 2022 saw many of us able to gather once again, sharing recipes at home (as Ina Garten did with her longtime fan the designer Daniel Roseberry) and returning to restaurants in the evenings (albeit at the early hour of 6 p.m.). The joy that comes with communing over plates of food is what…
I didn’t grow up eating many casseroles, and the main event at my family’s holiday brunch was bagels and lox. So, the first time I encountered a breakfast casserole at a New Year’s Day shindig, I was dubious. Where was the Nova and whitefish salad? Or at least the coffee cake and French toast I…
He returned to the University of Chicago as a faculty member in 1974 and served as associate dean and deputy dean from 1985 to 1993. He was named the H.G.B. Alexander Professor of Business Administration at the university’s Booth School of Business in 1996 and retired as professor emeritus in 1999. He also served as…
Christmas is this weekend, and people around the world who celebrate are preparing in all sorts of ways. For many Arab families outside the Middle East, that means stuffing a heady mixture of spiced rice and ground beef into grape leaves to make warak Dawali, and combining bulgur dough with a cinnamon-scented lamb and nut…