Celebrating Ina Garten

Good morning. It’s Groundhog Day, and, whether the rodent bites the mayor or flees its shadow, winter will continue until March 20, and tomorrow will dawn much like this one and much like the one that will follow. The director Harold Ramis understood this, as do many of us who’ve been weathering the pandemic from…

A Brand-New Cake From a Pastry Paradise

Financiers are the plain Janes of the pastry world. Usually, they’re unglazed, unfrosted, undecorated in any way. And that’s the way they’re meant to be — simplicity was built into their DNA. The story goes that the pastry chef Lasne, who had a shop near the Paris stock exchange in the late 1800s, created these…