Back in the Kitchen

Good morning. I was on the road for a few days, and not cooking at all. The food was fine while traveling — wings and tots, a pepperoni and Parmesan croissant, a decent cheese steak, a better-than-decent Italian sub and a remarkable beet smoothie from a juice bar in Lorain, Ohio, that I drank in…

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Shopping for Decorative Boxes

The best decorative boxes are both storage containers and functional art: They corral little things like jewelry and office supplies, but they’re also interesting on their own. “Instead of using a plastic container, you can get something like an inlaid wood box, which just upgrades the experience exponentially,” said Alyssa Kapito, an interior designer in…

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten to Put His Stamp on the Tin Building

In his most ambitious project to date, the chef and restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten will fill the Seaport District’s Tin Building with markets, dining counters and restaurants, to open in the spring. Mr. Vongerichten’s company will run everything in the 53,000-square-foot space. Built on the Manhattan waterfront in 1907, the building, covered in corrugated tin, originally…

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