While the Gateses did not provide details of how they would structure their finances, they are believed to have a prenuptial agreement. The Gateses are the largest owners of farmland in America and have vast investments though Cascade Investment, which manages Mr. Gates’s personal wealth and owns large stakes in the Four Seasons hotel chain,…
WASHINGTON — President Biden, faced with surging Covid-19 crises in India and South America, is under intensifying pressure from the international community and his party’s left flank to commit to increasing the vaccine supply by loosening patent and intellectual property protections on coronavirus vaccines. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, also feeling pressure, sought on Monday to…
You can get a jump on the sour cherry or wild blueberry season with pies from Petee’s Pie Company. Petra Paredez, whose tender, all-butter pastry encloses the judiciously-sweetened fruit, is now selling these online. (Her regular pies, in a wide assortment of flavors, are sold for pickup and local delivery at her shops on the…
That said, I’ve always wanted to take a more organized look at the bread I was baking and to solve some of the issues that I — and other home bakers — have had in the past. Chief among these are the dough’s slackness and its propensity to spread into a pancake-like loaf, baking up…
Since closing its dining room in March 2020, Canlis has reinvented itself several times over, shape-shifting from Seattle’s loftiest fine-dining restaurant into a bagel shop, a crab shack and a drive-in movie theater. Now, the restaurant has made another, more permanent change, hiring Aisha Ibrahim as its new executive chef. Ms. Ibrahim, 35, is the…
It’s never too late to try something new. La Crema, a Sonoma County winery that is known for chardonnay and pinot noir, has introduced a sauvignon blanc. The winery, established in 1979, released the 2019 sauvignon blanc on a limited basis last summer; now the 2020 is widely available. It’s a lovely summer quaff. “The…
Plant-based versions of ice cream (which cannot use the term cream) are proliferating faster than new flavors from Ben & Jerry’s. Every possible alternative “milk” — pressed from beans, grains, nuts and so forth — now beckon as vanilla and chocolate in the frozen food aisle. A newcomer, Wildgood, has taken a somewhat different approach,…
The wild Alaskan king salmon season started last month, but the catch from the prized Copper River fishery will not be available for another two weeks. Anticipating high demand, a number of companies are already accepting preorders for the richly flavored fish that has packed on fat and muscle so it can strive against the…
For nearly three years, Reggie Nadelson has documented a century or so of Manhattan history through visits to her favorite long-running restaurants, bars and shops in a column called the 212 for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Now she has compiled many of them in “Marvelous Manhattan,” a book in which she describes…
A sleek spice mill is the latest addition to the line of kitchen utensils developed by the chef Michel Bras with the KAI Group of Japan. It operates like many others: Unscrew the top, fill the cylinder, replace the top and grind by turning it. An important feature is the ease with which the texture…