Here’s an invitation to consume an entire box of chocolates. Truffolie, from the chocolatier Wendy-Dawn Wintcentsen, is offering assortments of 12 or 24 heart-shaped bonbons, with an optional custom message in the box, tucked letter-by-letter under the chocolates. Of course, you could just peek and then eat or share the chocolates one at a time.…
Jean-Georges Vongerichten has just added Bakery by ABC Restaurants, a vegetarian retail bakery offering pickup and delivery, to his cluster of restaurants at ABC Carpet & Home. The pastry chef, Karen DeMasco, has assembled a Valentine’s Day chocolate cookie box ($48), with four varieties of six cookies each. She is also baking pistachio crumb babkas…
A new era is opening in spaceflight, a future where anyone — at least anyone with tens of millions of dollars — can buy a rocket ride to see Earth from a couple of hundred miles up. Jared Isaacman, a 37-year-old billionaire, announced on Monday that he was essentially chartering a rocket and spacecraft from…
Next week, the chef Marcus Samuelsson and Adam D. Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, will give a free talk about art and food, with a focus on Black artists and chefs, and how museums and restaurants are coping with the pandemic. Museum members will get a chance to hear more…
As part of its check-in process, a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma offers some accident victims a waiver to sign stating they do not want their health plan billed for care. One patient received the waiver shortly after a car accident in which her head hit the windshield. She said she had no recollection of signing…
Without breaking the budget for Valentine’s Day, two can enjoy an intimate taste of that most romantic of cities, Venice, at home. Tramezzini, a Lower East Side spot specializing in the kinds of sandwiches that Venetians enjoy with their aperitivos, tucks them in a new party box for two ($58 plus delivery). It consists of…
Courtesy Although February is the shortest month of the year, there is no shortage of exciting fashion news. Kicking things off is Bulgari’s women-centered collaboration with Tribeca Film Festival and a shoe collab that merges Anna Sui with Teva’s outdoorsy aesthetic. Keep coming back for more to see all the hottest drops and collaborations that…
Shannon Romano, a molecular biologist, came down with Covid late last March, about a week after she and her colleagues shut down their lab at Mount Sinai Hospital. A debilitating headache came first, followed by a fever that kept rising, and then excruciating body aches. “I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t move,” she said. “Every one…
Bennett, who has had a seven-decade-long career, scored his first big hit in 1951, “Because of You.” In 1962 he recorded “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” which became his signature song. Long after other crooners had died or faded from the airwaves, Bennett experienced a resurgence in popularity: He won a Grammy for…
If there’s one occasion to prepare dumplings from scratch, wrappers and all, it’s the Lunar New Year. Everyday dumplings take on special significance for the holiday: Eating the savory pleated pouches, which symbolize wealth, means good fortune for the year ahead, and slurping dessert dumplings is supposed to assure family unity. But the more immediate…