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 —…
One factor might be a high sense of community and high levels of religious service attendance within the Black community, which have consistently been associated with both lower and less severe alcohol use. Another possible reason for lower rates of alcohol use among Black Americans is the well-founded sense that the possible downsides are more…
I grew up constantly uncertain, thanks to an unstable home life as a child, parents who moved around a lot and, starting at 16, being without a home of my own. The trauma from those experiences began to prey on me, it wore me down and mingled with my diagnoses of A.D.H.D., depression and obsessive-compulsive…
An early-morning word game catapults me into flow. A late-night Netflix binge sometimes does the trick too — it transports you into a story where you feel attached to the characters and concerned for their welfare. While finding new challenges, enjoyable experiences and meaningful work are all possible remedies to languishing, it’s hard to find…
Some children will be taller, some will be more developed, some boys will have changing voices while others won’t. “This is all a normal part of going through adolescence, but it might seem a little more sudden,” Dr. Josefson said. Updated April 19, 2021, 10:35 a.m. ET Families should talk with children about how these…