A New Pint Worth Sampling

This new ice cream from McConnell’s in Santa Barbara, Calif., is especially craveable. It’s creamy, thickly veined with molten praline, lightly accented with mellow Garrison Brothers Texas bourbon and studded with salt-roasted caramelized pecans. Give it the affogato treatment with a splash of the bourbon. McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams Garrison Brothers Whiskey and Pecan Pralines,…

An Ancient Grain Powers These Chips

Crisp, rectangular fonio chips, made from a West African heirloom grain, are the latest from Yolélé, a Brooklyn company that makes and sells African foods. There are four iterations: Afro-Funk, made with dawadawa (fermented locust beans) and ginger, are moderately spicy; Greens!, made with moringa and baobab, are tart; ruddy Yassa!, flavored with chile, onion…

Noodles in Six Acts

These days, a number of virtual cooking classes for children and families are taking a global approach. A new course, Noodle Passport, designed by the caterer Great Performances and the nonprofit Sylvia Center, an educational facility based in the Bronx and the Hudson Valley, consists of six hourlong interactive lessons. They cover noodle dishes from…

Next Stop: The Story of a Restaurant

The making of the Grey, a Savannah, Ga., restaurant in an Art Deco former Greyhound bus terminal, is a tale worth telling. And the two partners — Mashama Bailey, a chef from New York (though she spent some of her childhood in Savannah) who once cooked at Prune, and John O. Morisano, an entrepreneur from…

New River Gorge: Meet America’s 63rd National Park

As Americans continue to weather the pandemic, the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and spending bill passed by the federal government in December brought an unexpected and lasting gift: a new national park. The 5,593-page spending package included a raft of provisions authorizing little-known projects — the construction of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North…