California continued its uneven progress in reopening schools on Monday, as elementary students began to return to classrooms in Long Beach, the state’s fourth-largest district with 70,000 students. Public schools in the state’s top three districts by enrollment — Los Angeles, San Diego and Fresno — have said they will begin to allow grade-school students…
Cassoulet season has ended, but the handmade bowls that M. Wells in Long Island City, Queens, commissioned to bake and serve theirs this year are timeless. The blue-and-white pottery pieces, in slightly varied designs and tones, can just as easily hold servings of bouillabaisse or be used for summer berries, cherries, a thatch of coleslaw…
Last week, calls for the cancellation of H&M and other Western brands went out across Chinese social media as human rights campaigns collided with cotton sourcing and political gamesmanship. Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on and how it may affect everything from your T-shirts to your trench coats. What’s all this…
Gotham Bar & Grill has been closed for a little over a year (with plans to reopen this summer), but that hasn’t stopped the pastry chef Ron Paprocki from continuing to turn out his chocolate treats. For spring this year, there are pastel bonbons filled with passion fruit caramel, lemon olive oil and raspberry ganache.…
Duck eggs, larger than hen eggs and containing bigger, deep golden yolks and a larger proportion of protein-rich whites, are sold at some farmers’ markets. Now Utopihen Farms has started selling the duck eggs nationally, raised on a group of small family farms with a home base in New Holland, Pa. Their duck (and chicken)…
Eric “E.T.” Tecosky, the Los Angeles bartender behind the line of Dirty Sue cocktail condiments, has come up with a clever new product: a Bloody Mary mix with no tomato juice. Anyone can add tomato juice; Mr. Tecosky’s focus is the spices needed, in addition to his company’s own olive juice, to make a great…
Back when we had a share in a ski house at Mount Snow, Vt., we’d drive up with a cheesecake in the trunk of the car. It was frozen by the time we reached our destination and delicious to eat without thawing. The new blueberry ice cream cheesecake that Nicholas Larsen and Petrushka Bazin Larsen…
Is it rushing things to recommend a cookbook based largely on alluring dishes that are prepped and assembled, but mostly uncooked or barely so? It’s spring after all and the incentive to prepare salads instead of stews is compelling. Vanessa Seder, the author of “Eat Cool,” is a chef and writer based in Portland, Maine,…
MELBOURNE, Australia — This past summer in Australia had a dreamlike emotional dissonance, like pantomiming normalcy while the outside world remained overrun with illness and death. Everyone I know reads the news, speaks to loved ones in less-safe places and feels guilty that everything here is so very nice. We go to the beach, we…
Opera is about sound bellowing from someone’s throat. Lip-syncing is the opposite. While opera lovers have long been known to silently join in with recordings in the privacy of their homes, can there be a true operatic performance based on mouthing along? Can a lip-syncer be an opera star? Absolutely, according to the composer Angélica…