“This is haute cuisine applied to pizza,” declared Mr. Martucci, and I Masanielli’s kitchen, larger than a full-size tennis court, is his half-million-euro laboratory — stocked with sous-vide machines, flash freezers, dehydrators, fermenters, freeze dryers, 19 refrigerators to maintain separate temperatures and ovens of all kinds, alongside the customary wood-burning pizza variety. The frying station,…
America’s relentless drive to innovate has led to the Constitution and the iPhone. But has it produced a better Thanksgiving turkey? Even in colonial times, cooks debated how many inches the bird should be kept from the open flame. In 1824, decades before President Abraham Lincoln decreed that Thanksgiving would be observed on the last…
I just found out an event I am attending has a dress code requirement, and it is pastel. Pastel! I look horrible in pastels. To me, this is as bad as demanding everyone dress “creatively.” Dress codes seem to be very popular during holiday season, but do I really have to obey? Is there anything…
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups wrote to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, urging the Justice Department to investigate growing threats of violence against physicians and hospitals that provide transgender medical treatment to adolescents. As more Republicans frame the treatment as child abuse, some doctors have become wary of discussing…