Paige Minear gets a thrill from frills. In the style blogger’s Atlanta home, a ruffled skirt with a green bow print adorns a bedroom vanity. In the family room sits a chintz ottoman with a ruffle along the bottom; ruffled throw pillows rest on the armchairs. “I think ruffles just add that edge,” said Ms.…
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RECIFE, Brazil — A procession of mothers pushed children in bulky wheelchairs down a long corridor at a health center in this northeastern Brazilian city, passing patients who glanced at the children, looked away, then looked back, quickly and uneasily. The children were smartly turned out in Disney T-shirts, striped socks, plastic sandals. Girls had…
After Britain authorized a bivalent vaccine to target Omicron, some are wondering whether they should hold out for a similar shot in the U.S.
The prolific restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten has reached a new pinnacle with this dazzling food hall in the Tin Building. With the Howard Hughes organization and the design team at Roman and Williams, Mr. Vongerichten, 65, has added polish to this once decrepit building in the former Fulton Fish Market area. The 53,000-square-foot setting houses market…
At the height of tomato season the New York Botanical Garden is stepping up to the plate, so to speak. It has scheduled a weekend of hands-on tomato activities. Planting and tending on-site, potting basil to take home, making bruschetta, sampling heirloom tomatoes, learning the history of tomatoes and decorating aprons are some of what’s…
I’ve never known what it means to have normal digestion. That’s especially hard when your profession centers on eating. As a food reporter, I usually dine out a few times a week. Since I’ve taken to the road in recent months to scout restaurants around the country for The Times’s fall list of favorites, back-to-back…
Reading the wine writer Alice Feiring’s new book of autobiographical essays, “To Fall in Love, Drink This,” is to discover her uncommon palate. She guides you through the Jura in France and Moravia in the Czech Republic; shows a preference for Northern Rhônes like Crozes-Hermitage over Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the “fanciest” Rhône in the south; and can…
Jorge Gaviria’s mission is to take Mexican cooking back to the basics. His online market, Masienda, sells the calcium hydroxide needed for nixtamalization, comals for cooking tortillas, and, now, it has a supply of molcajetes handmade in Puebla for grinding corn. These mortar-and-pestles, as handsome as Olmec sculptures, are made of natural basalt lava rock…
During recent trips back to his native South Korea, Hooni Kim, the chef and owner of Danji and Hanjan (a pandemic casualty), noted that there was a banchan shop in practically every neighborhood. But not back home. “Every New York neighborhood deserves a banchan shop,” he said. The shelves of this new store are lined…