Chez Panisse, the Bay Area locavore mecca helmed by chef Alice Waters, has long served a singularly minimalist dessert at its casual upstairs café: ripe fruit in a bowl. To select the right figs or pears or olallieberries for each bowl, Chez Panisse’s kitchen staff carefully tracks the ripeness of each one, sorting, sniffing, and…
In September 2021, when their business was forced to close because of financial challenges, friends and family donated to their GoFundMe, raising more than $20,000 to reopen. At the same time, Mr. Sankofa was an executive chef and Ms. Gambarian was a pastry chef, working to help open the Cree Wine Company, a wine bar…
Ms. Brown-Taher was so moved by the project that she created a similar pendant in memory of her own dog, Stevie Licks. Creating personalized jewelry as a tribute to a pet is no less involved than undertaking any other bespoke project, according to Ms. Brown-Taher. She consults with each client in person or via video…
This holiday season, amid global concerns of rising interest rates and possible recession, many beauty companies are marketing gifts that might seem out of sync with the economic climate: extremely expensive seasonal offerings, some of which are several hundred times the price of one of their entry-level items. Yet beauty industry insiders say they are…
Financial and bureaucratic barriers in the United States mean that the next generation of Covid vaccines may well be designed here, but used elsewhere.
Olatowun Candide-Johnson Founder and chief executive of Gaia Africa; Lagos, Nigeria Buying smaller, more useful gifts like books and planners for family members is Ms. Candide-Johnson’s gifting strategy this year as, she said, “the naira is shaky” and she has less disposable income than in the past. “This time it’s not going to just be,…
Pick up not only on people’s joys and delights but also on their burdens and aggravations, and think of gifts that might alleviate those things. If they complain about never having enough free time, steer clear of time-consuming gifts like jigsaw puzzles or 1,000-page books. Instead, think about time savers, such as a robot vacuum…
When it comes to luxury brand storytelling, Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella would be hard to beat. Founded in 1221 by Dominican friars in Florence, Italy, Santa Maria Novella (as it is commonly known) is a niche high-end beauty brand that has survived the plague known as Black Death, the Italian wars throughout the…
If you owned a DRT Tempus Fugit watch, you would be constantly reminded that you better start writing that novel, establish your business or make amends with a friend. Because the watch, named in Latin for the phrase “time flies,” displays an algorithm’s estimate of how much time the owner has left to live. Some…
Name: Brittani Nichols Age: 34 Hometown: Chicago Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles with her girlfriend and brother. Claim to Fame: Ms. Nichols is a screenwriter, actress and community organizer who is one of the writers of the critically acclaimed mockumentary “Abbott Elementary.” “Being part of a…