La Piraña Lechonera, which provides the nearest thing New York City has to the experience of eating roast pork at a lechonera in Puerto Rico, is sometimes mistaken for a food truck. It is, in fact, a trailer. A long metal box resting near the corner of East 152nd Street and Wales Avenue in the…
A new paella kit made in Spain has hit the shelves at Despaña Brand Foods, a retail and wholesale source for Spanish foods. It consists of a can of enough seasoned seafood broth with some bits of seafood to serve three or four with precisely measured rice. The proper paella pan, at 34 centimeters (13…
New York City’s top-tier walkability has always made it a perfect place for a crawl — to bars, galleries, “Sex and the City” filming sites. There are so few places that can’t be reached by foot. (Governors Island footbridge when?) I’m always looking for a new crawl. And since the dessert and pastry beat could…
Cornbread Farm to Soul Cornbread Holdings, with casual soul food restaurants in Maplewood, N.J., and Newark and soon in Jersey City and Montclair, N.J., has added Brooklyn to its portfolio. Fried or baked chicken, turkey wings, mac and cheese, collard greens, fried whiting, catfish, peach cobbler and the signature cornbread are on the menu. The…
On a recent afternoon in Brooklyn, a man known as Moody stood behind his dark blue cart in front of the Bushwick location of BK Lobster, gingerly prying open Fanny Bay, bluepoint and Prince Edward Island oysters with his shucking knife and presenting them to customers on a bed of ice. Occasionally, a curious passer-by…
To some people, a roller rink is just a place to skim around in a circle, not even very fast, going nowhere. But to its devotees and to the creators of the DiscOasis, a new skate experience in Central Park, it is transformational, spiritual — time travel on four wheels. On Saturday night, more than…
My Wise Younger Self I flew home from Berlin to Vancouver after two years abroad. My mother, Roberta, tasked me with removing my belongings from the attic. I sorted through boxes of memories. Flipping through an old notebook, I discovered an entry entitled, “Confessions,” written in cursive on Feb. 24, 2004, the eve of my…
For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business partner at the failed blood-testing company Theranos. Ms. Holmes was found guilty of defrauding the start-up’s investors in January. Mr. Balwani is seeking a different outcome in his own fraud trial. But on Tuesday, in closing statements…
As a shopping editor, I come across viral products on social media all the time. While I enjoy a useful cleaning tool or hidden shelf organizer, an unusually eye-catching item captured my attention today: a glass, bag-shaped vase-slash-aquarium that shoppers on Instagram have been posting about incessantly. This content is imported from Instagram. You may…
We all have to start somewhere. That’s the inspiration behind this small but mighty collection of recipes for absolute beginners. We’re talking can-hardly-boil-water beginners. Maybe you just graduated from college and are on your own for the first time, or perhaps you never quite got the hang of cooking. Not to worry! These dishes —…