Headliner MisiPasta “My dream project for 25 years,” is how Missy Robbins described the latest addition to Lilia and Misi, the Brooklyn places she owns with Sean Feeney. “I always intended to open a store,” she added, referring to an outlet for her fresh pastas, jarred vegetables and other products. She introduced the packaged goods…
BonBon, the Swedish candy emporium with hundreds of choices, introduced itself to New York on the Lower East Side, then followed with a store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is now opening an elaborately decorated shop on the Upper East Side. Its three partners, all natives of Sweden, are introducing their own line, a first, of…
Hello, weeknight fans! This is Krysten, stepping in for Emily. Is this your first day back from vacation? You’re not alone. Here in New York, the last weeks of August feel so desolate that I half-expect a tumbleweed to cross my path. Then, come early September, everyone is back from their summery reveries, ready to…
These were supposed to be boom times for Pederson’s Natural Farms. In the days this spring after the Supreme Court upheld a California law banning the sale of certain pork products made from pigs raised in small gestation pens, the phones were ringing off the hook at Pederson’s headquarters in Hamilton, Texas. California grocery stores…
For the staff of the Michigan State University dining halls, serving roughly 27,000 students each semester has never been a picnic. But these days, the job involves an even bigger challenge: One in six of those students has an allergy or other dietary restriction. Just five years ago, it was one in eight. In the…
Hello! Mia again, here with you for one more Cooking newsletter adventure before Melissa returns on Wednesday. Today is Labor Day, which makes this week The Week After Labor Day. The kids are back in school, you’re back to work and your calendar has gone from OOO to Oh, no. It’s time for recipes that…
Hello from Atlanta, where school started a month ago and we are deep into packing lunches, working hard and trying to ignore the recent courthouse shenanigans that seem to keep Georgia on everybody’s mind. We are also still mourning our terrible peach season. By some estimates, nearly 95 percent of the crop was lost largely…
In July, Tashea Channell Younge, a private chef and caterer from New York City, flew to Los Angeles, all expenses paid, to cook a private dinner in a luxurious kitchen for 15 people. She then cooked for the N.F.L. wide receiver Noah Brown and some teammates. Later that month, she was back in New York…
I love this time of year, when summer produce is at its glorious best, even though I know it won’t last much longer. Its end brings ripe peppers of all sorts, in various shades of orange and scarlet, sweet from a season in the sun and far more delicious than the hothouse types could ever…
In the waning days of summer, taking the Cooking newsletter out for a spin can feel a bit like speed dating. Who’s filling in for Sam and Melissa? Is it Julia? Priya? Mia? Today, at the start of a long weekend that brings an end to vacation season, I’ll be your date. Not to hurt…