Keep It Casual in Earth Tones

Checked tablecloths and napkins are common in your neighborhood bistro, red sauce joint or summer picnic basket. But at Morrow Soft Goods, a Los Angeles company owned by Michelle Toney and Stephanie Cleary, the gingham for its line of 100 percent linen table wares is subtler than the typical red, in tones like honey and…

Champagne Wishes and Climate Change Dreams

A new documentary, “Sparkling: The Story of Champagne,” is a lush valentine to the French bubbly, with history, profiles of many of the producers, pithy quotes about the wine, its celebrity connections (notably Winston Churchill) and tidbits about Champagne in the United States. But perhaps more compelling is its coverage of English sparkling wines, a…