Years ago, in response to the demand for sweet vinegar that wouldn’t stain lettuce, producers introduced white balsamics. Most are made from the cooked, sweet unfermented must of white grapes, the basis for genuine balsamic, with white wine vinegar and, often, sugar added. Now Carandini, a centuries-old producer of balsamic vinegars in Modena, Italy, has…
Before the pandemic, Monica Muzzo Romero, a native of Venezuela, owned Arepa Factory restaurants in the East Village and in the Turnstyle Underground Market at Columbus Circle. Both closed. Now Ms. Muzzo has opened a compact food shop in Brooklyn as a homage to her grandmother Graciela Romero (the store’s logo is a sketch of…
When a fine cheese company produces its own mac and cheese, it pays to notice. Beecher’s Handmade Cheese and Murray’s Cheese are two of them. Now there’s Cabot Cheese, a Vermont-based cooperative of 800 farm families in the Northeast, known especially for its Cheddars. And it’s the aged Cheddar (dried and powdered) that’s included in…
Tiwa Select, an online source for household and tabletop objects made by artists, is holding a live exhibit and sale called Big Plates, with serving platters from 12 artists commissioned by Alex Tieghi-Walker and Fiona Mackay, partners in the company. The platters, designed for summer entertaining, will be displayed in the woods near Ms. Mackay’s…
Sotheby’s, the auction house, sells wine collections, has its own wine store and, for the past two years, has also commissioned 13 well-made wines from France, Italy and California with its name on the labels. It has now expanded this in-house roster to include a rosé Champagne, a Provençal rosé, a Côtes du Rhône, a…
Sorted Fortune — a fragrant spirit made from heirloom musk melons grown on the North Fork of Long Island, with whey left over from White Moustache yogurt — is one of the latest products from Matchbook Distilling Company, in Greenport, N.Y. In the fall, a sunchoke spirit that suggests mezcal will be bottled for the…
Last week, in what was intended to be an internal document, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a stark admission: The highly contagious Delta variant had redrawn the battle lines of the coronavirus pandemic, necessitating new public health measures like universal mask mandates. Or, as the agency put it in the document, which…
The couple divorced in 1978. A previous marriage also ended in divorce. Along with her daughter, Dr. Caplan is survived by her son, Jeremy; her brother, Bruce; and five grandchildren. After moving to Canada, Dr. Caplan was a psychologist for the Toronto Family Court for three years. Among her first efforts was a study of…
Rose HartmanGetty Images The decade is 1970, the dance floor is crowded, the era of disco is in full swing, and life is good. Thanks to hit songs from singers like Donna Summer and Diana Ross, the 1970s were all about disco music and clubbing style. Now, even forty years later, discotheques like Studio 54…
In October, Ms. Lugrin posted a blog post announcing FYPM, which, she wrote, was “birthed out of rage.” Taking aim at influencer marketing platforms, she said most were “really just another platform designed to help more business owners exploit influencer talent, but in a new ‘innovative’ way!” After building a prototype of FYPM, she was…