A Farmer to Restaurants Now Delivers

For decades, the Chef’s Garden, a 350-acre farm in Huron, Ohio, has been a source of first-rate produce for restaurants across the country. Now the hundreds of items it cultivates are available for home delivery. What makes the offerings so compelling to the discerning cook is not just the dazzling seasonal variety — including sultry…

Be a New Orleanian Wherever You Are

You’ll need to assemble your own jazz band or find a playlist on Spotify to do justice to a Commander’s Palace dinner at home, especially for Mother’s Day. For the first time, the legendary New Orleans restaurant, in business since 1893, is serving a limited menu for delivery, shipped frozen and nationwide through Goldbelly. The…

Look at These Met Gala Photos

It’s the first Monday in May, which means that civilization requires that oodles of celebrities assemble in outlandish clothing and, with their terror quite visible, slowly ascend the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an unnaturally expensive dinner or perhaps human ritual sacrifice. Why? Because Anna Wintour, the artistic director of Condé Nast…

How Will We Buy Our Perfume Now?

The way fragrance is introduced, advertised and sold to the world hasn’t changed in nearly a century. No. 5, a seductive scent for the modern woman introduced by Coco Chanel in the 1920s, is marketed similarly to Tom Ford’s Black Orchid, a “modern” and “alluring potion” that came out in 2006. Both designers’ fragrances depend…