Allow me to set the scene. It’s sometime in the 2000s. A commercial for Moon Boots interrupts What Not to Wear. The Black Eyed Peas just dropped a hot new single, and you’re checking out a little-known artist named Rihanna. You snack on an Uncrustable in the family computer room, multitasking between AIM and caring…
The star ratings and other distinctions in the Michelin Guide New York City for 2022 will be announced on Oct. 6 during a ceremony at Peak, the restaurant on the 101st floor of 30 Hudson Yards. But before that shoe drops, the company is providing an advance list of new restaurants it plans to add…
JACKSON, Miss. — This state’s capital city is an unusual location for a seven-course tasting-menu restaurant. So much so that Zacchaeus Golden made the news when he opened one called Southern Soigné in December. But it turns out he wasn’t such an outlier. Mr. Golden is among a growing, nationwide cohort of chefs who have…
Do you want to tell the truth about something, but know that it will hurt someone else? Do you feel you have a moral obligation to help a family member whose behavior has always been rotten? We want to hear about it. The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist, Kwame Anthony Appiah, will help readers…
It’s pretty meta that I’m sitting with an actress who’s the epitome of Upper East Side sophistication in a hotel that’s the epitome of Upper East Side sophistication. But then, some Wednesdays are better than others. Christine Baranski showed up for lunch at the Mark looking like a million bucks, wearing a belted black Michael…
But in any individual case, it can be hard to prove what caused an infection. The potentially deadly bacteria resides in dirt and water; studies have found it in kitchens. Because the bacteria can clump together in formula containers, it’s possible for a sample to test negative even if Cronobacter was in the powder that…
About a year ago, Carlos Suarez, whose restaurants are in and around Greenwich Village, opened an eastern outpost of his Rosemary’s at the border of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. Adjacent to it he has now added an airy store with ample seating, selling sandwiches and other prepared food, pizza, pastries and ingredients made…
Henry Orr, who was born into slavery in 1792, became a caterer in antebellum Washington, providing high society and the households of government figures with necessarily stylish dinners, earning enough along the way to buy his and his family’s freedom. Leni Sorensen, who was the African American Research Historian at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, has…
Our Place, a company that sells a line of cookware with some interchangeable lids, pans and so forth, has introduced a Moroccan tagine lid. Just the lid, no bottom dish. At a little more than 10 ½ inches in diameter, the typical slope-sided dome with a topknot is meant to fit the company’s pans, but…
Be sure to have the kitchen scale set for grams, not ounces, to tackle “Soup Broth Bread,” a cookbook by Rachel Allen, a member of the family that runs the Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, Ireland. (Metric measurements are all Ms. Allen uses.) The beautifully photographed book takes you through four seasons of soups;…