What is the first thing you reach for every morning? For some, it might be their phone or a gargantuan cup of coffee. But for me, it’s my headphones—and I have a feeling I’m not alone. Whether you’re dialing into a Zoom call, in need of a good playlist to get the day started, or…
If quarantine has been good to anyone, it’s Zerina Akers. Trace her steps from the beginning of the lockdown to now and you’ll embark upon a whirlwind journey rooted in storytelling—an integral part of her brand. As she tells me over the phone, quarantine has been “over” for her for a while. Akers isn’t saying…
Target announced today that it will be continuing its Designer Dress Collection for spring 2021, which previously worked with female-backed brands like Cushnie and LoveShackFancy. This time around the retailer is tapping even more hyped-up brands, collaborating with three diverse designers: Alexis, Christopher John Rogers, and Rixo. The rising stars are adding their signature flairs…
With most ramen, the work that’s put into the broth is what makes all the difference, providing the foundation for the entire dish. A broth made with pork, chicken or seafood can be cooked for up to three days, resulting in an intense, velvety soup that sings with complex, multilayered flavors. So it may feel…
With their eyes on Spain and Portugal (and the value given tinned seafood there), Caroline Goldfarb, a comedy television writer, and Becca Millstein, who worked in the entertainment industry, decided that better domestic canned choices were needed. Now they’re in the fish business as founders of Fishwife Tinned Seafood Co. Its latest release is Idaho…
This year, Eastern Orthodox Easter comes on May 2. In a run-up to the celebration, there are some ingredients for traditional dishes that are worth having on hand, notably grape leaves, used for enclosing fillings to make dolmas (vine leaves stuffed with grains, meat or seafood) or to wrap fish before baking. The Greek food…
Ursula Sala-Illa, who prefers to be known as Ursula XVII, has just opened her own chocolate shop, Atelier Disset, on the North Fork of Long Island. The pastry chef’s complicated nomenclature has to do with her Catalonian roots. In the Catalan language “disset” means 17 (pronounce it and if you know French, you’ll also understand).…
The soft cotton that once went into making flour sacks is what the photographer Pauline Stevens has selected for her vibrant collection of kitchen towels decorated with her food-focused photographs. Each is also printed with a literary quotation or a recipe for a dish, a drink or a sauce, most well-suited for Mother’s Day giving.…
Eric Ripert’s new collection of vegetable recipes is maybe one of the least seemingly chef-driven cookbooks. And it holds true to its title, “Vegetable Simple.” What a delightful approach, especially with summer on the horizon. Some recipes require as few as two ingredients (tomatoes or cucumbers with salt), and most have a short list, with…
Good morning. It’s a new week filled with new recipes and the joy of discovering older ones, and if I generally meet Mondays with a kind of empty sorrow — the weekend gone and still no newsroom into which to travel, another day at home at the same desk in the same empty room —…