The name Pomp & Whimsy sounds like it was designed to toast the Platinum Jubilee. But this new gin is made in Los Angeles and is the work of Nicola Nice, a former sociologist living in New York who co-founded the Women’s Cocktail Collective to amplify women’s roles in the drinks industry. The company’s first…
Early in the new National Geographic Documentary Films and Imagine Documentaries film, “We Feed People,” about World Central Kitchen, the chef José Andrés’s disaster relief organization, Mr. Andrés sums up his approach: “I see opportunities where others see mayhem.” The Spanish-born chef started the nonprofit in quick response to the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.…
You may not know the name Thierry Atlan. It’s because this French master chocolatier (Meilleur Ouvrier de France Chocolatier) has spent much of his career teaching and also producing chocolates on the wholesale and corporate level in France and, for the past eight years, in New Jersey. He is now opening a shiny little boutique…
Lighting the grill and quickly searing some burgers or franks is not the game plan in “Pig Beach BBQ Cookbook,” by Matt Abdoo and Shane McBride, two of the partners in the Pig Beach BBQ restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens. The essence of what they do is smoking, low and slow. Even at its simplest,…
If you’d prefer to stay off the reservation sites, you can try calling: Restaurants of a certain era, like Yakitori Totto near Carnegie Hall, sometimes take last-minute reservations over the phone. Or you should join every restaurant obsessive I know in dining out at 6 p.m. Sure, it’ll be on the quiet side when you…
As a line cook in the early 2000s, I learned exactly how addicting fried shallots can be: If, after painstakingly frying them, I left them anywhere in sight, I’d wind up with an empty jar as other cooks grazed on them throughout the day. The same thing happens at home now if I leave them…
AUSTIN, Texas — On a warm evening in March, sorority girls in sundresses and frat guys in moisture-wicking polos lined up at Cain and Abel’s, a popular bar near the University of Texas at Austin, for a drink ticket and a chance at everlasting love — both courtesy of Ilios, a dating app that matches…
Courtesy Summer is quickly approaching, which means we can finally look forward to beach days, summer picnics, and fun weekend vacations. Unfortunately, the arrival of summer also signals the arrival of sweaty nights for some of us (especially if you, like me, do not have an air conditioner that works for your space). But summer…
Name a clothing item more versatile than leggings—you can wear them to work out, lounge on the couch, run errands, or just pair with a nice oversized blouse for brunch. But in the world of leggings, there’s one brand that reigns supreme: Lululemon. And, if you’ve never thrown on a pair of comfy Lulu leggings,…
LOS ANGELES — Oliver Sim was happy to be a monster. Too happy. On the London set of the short film “Hideous,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, the 32-year-old musician was living his fanboy fantasies of becoming a creature from a horror movie. “They were like, ‘You have to relax your…