Coffee From Yemen, With a Literary Connection

In 2018 Dave Eggers wrote the improbable nail-biter, “The Monk of Mokha,” about Mokhtar Alkhanshali — an American citizen of Yemeni parents barely scraping by in San Francisco — who went to Yemen to reestablish the coffee trade in his ancestral country, the place said to be where coffee-drinking originated. He went often to Yemen,…

This Wine Bag Is Ready for the Picnic

Unlike many bags designed for carrying wine, the new canvas tote from Wine Enthusiast also has food in mind. Its new farmers’ market bag is well provisioned with pockets to hold jars, baguettes, even bunches of herbs and flowers, and wine bottles to be sure. It has a removable inner insulated cooler pouch for perishables…

Four Cheeses That Can’t Be Beat

To stock your cheese board it might pay to note this year’s top selections in the annual judging by the American Cheese Society. They were announced last week at the group’s conference in Portland, Ore. There are scores of categories for cheeses, butters and cultured dairy products, with winners in each. But only four were…

Smart Advice From an Upstate Cook

The recipe developer Alexis deBoschnek’s first cookbook, “To the Last Bite: Recipes and Ideas for Making the Most of Your Ingredients,” a bright volume of alluring recipes, is true to its title. It’s a waste-not cookbook that suggests sautéing the dark green tops of leeks in butter for a frittata and, recognizing “there’s always leftover…

A Wine Worthy of a Blind Tasting

Blanc de noir refers to white wine made from red grapes like pinot noir, engineered so the juice, which is white, is barely or not at all in contact with the red skins. It’s typical for Champagne, but occasionally winemakers pull it off to produce a still white wine, as the Prisoner Wine Company of…

Tropical Ice Creams With Bold and Subtle Flavors

Frutero makes the sorts of flavors more often found in sorbet than ice cream. But the intensity of the tangy-sweet tropical harvest shines through in Frutero’s creamy tangerine, passion fruit and pineapple, to name a few. These and the coconut are the most vibrant varieties in the collection from this two-year-old Philadelphia company. Guava, guanabana…

Dan Smith Might Teach You Guitar

For three decades, Dan Smith has been making a solemn promise to New Yorkers. He has posted his flier — “Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar” — thousands of times in the city’s bodegas, coffee shops, pizza parlors, delis and laundromats. Parodied by Jon Stewart and the guitar god John Mayer, Mr. Smith has reached…