The cookware from the California company Hestan is made in Italy and designed for the professional and the amateur. The professional side just received an upgrade with a new line designed with input from the chef Thomas Keller. He insisted on pans that were more generous in circumference to suit larger burners in restaurant kitchens…
Fort Hamilton Distillery, a five-year-old enterprise in Industry City, Brooklyn, named for the 19th century military installation guarding the east side of the Narrows in New York Harbor (Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island faces it to the west), specializes in rye whiskies, and also makes bourbon. To this portfolio it has just added a bourbon…
Iberico, the prized pork from Spain’s free-ranging heirloom breeds is best known in its cured state, as ham. But fresh Iberico in the muscle cuts typical in Spain, is delicious roasted, grilled or pan-seared. Campo Grande, an American company that works directly with small farmers in Spain, is a new source for the meat. The…
Para el desafío Come bien, las técnicas de atención plena, como “surfear los impulsos”, pueden ayudar a frenar el comer demasiado sin prohibir los alimentos favoritos.
NIKISKI, Alaska — Before the sun rose on Nov. 11, 10 students from Nikiski Middle & High School had gathered with their teacher, Jesse Bjorkman, at a gas-station parking lot here in this small community on the Kenai Peninsula — to gear up for a moose hunt. Dispersed among five vehicles, the group drove about…
This year, the second in a row, the Times Travel desk faced the challenge of creating one of our signature pieces of journalism, the annual “52 Places” list, in a world turned upside down. A year ago, with global travel at all but a standstill, we turned to readers to ask about the places that…
This season’s dominant H3N2 strain, he added, poses “a particular threat to older people,” although existing antiviral medications appear effective against it. Perhaps people grew complacent because last season, despite fears of a “twindemic” that would simultaneously hospitalize both flu and Covid-19 patients, flu infections actually plummeted. “The lowest season ever,” Dr. Schaffner said. Updated …
With visual cues and complex steps, at-home coronavirus tests are often inaccessible to blind people. But some low- and high-tech workarounds could help.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the commoner-turned-royal formerly known as Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, mother of a future king, has turned 40. In honor of the event, three new portraits have been unveiled to the world, to go on display in three locations before becoming part of the permanent collection of London’s National Portrait…
If you have a wood-burning fireplace, a functional fireplace screen is essential to keep the room from being showered with burning embers. But it also has an aesthetic role to play, as it will be front and center during fireside gatherings. “The fireplace gets a lot of attention, so the fireplace screen should be gorgeous,”…