American lobster may be a beloved and delicious splurge, but it is no longer a sustainable seafood choice and consumers should avoid eating it, according to Seafood Watch, a group that monitors how fish and other seafood are harvested from the world’s oceans. The organization made the announcement last week, motivated by concerns that the…
Jōji Below street level, with an entrance from Grand Central Terminal, sits this concise Japanese restaurant in the One Vanderbilt skyscraper where Daniel Boulud has his grand, leafy restaurant Le Pavillon. Mr. Boulud is running it with Marc Holliday of SL Green, the building’s developer. It’s a luxury enclave with a 10-seat counter and a…
Honey cake, a springy loaf called lekach in Yiddish and traditionally served at Rosh Hashana, is not my favorite holiday dessert. So I was thrilled when, in the 1990s, Charles Fenyvesi, a colleague of mine at The Washington Post, shared a tantalizing family recipe for a Hungarian honey cake with thin, biscuit-like gingerbread layers. Essentially,…
Frances Tiafoe sweats a lot. The 24-year-old American tennis player had a breakout performance at this year’s U.S. Open, beating Rafael Nadal in the round of 16 and making it all the way to the semifinals. During each match, he repeatedly changed his shirt. After he lost to Carlos Alcaraz (who would go on to…
Officials at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego had already begun work on a $1.2 billion transformation of its campus when the pandemic hit, forcing them to switch gears. As hospitals nationwide struggled to deal with surging cases, it became clear that the facility’s new design would need to evolve. “When the pandemic came along,…
Sharmeen Chaudhary For her first-ever New York Fashion Week, Amber Midthunder sure picked a good show to attend. The breakout star of Hulu’s Prey, who plays a Comanche warrior onscreen, subbed in her trusty bow and arrow for a patchwork leather shoulder bag to check out the New York label’s spring 2023 collection at the…
Preparing the dishes in this substantial new cookbook feels like paying homage to resilient survivors. The elegance of this new volume, “Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors,” assembled and copublished by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation led by Ronald S. Lauder, almost camouflages the horrors until you read the…
To most of the world, Gisele Bündchen is a bona fide supermodel—so famous she doesn’t need a last name. But to nine-year-old Vivian, Bündchen is better known as Mommy. And on a recent summer day in Paris, Mommy was up to something strange. Bündchen brought her along to a fashion shoot for the first time…
It’s easy to obsess about the design details in your kitchen, bathroom or living room. But what about your hallways? Many of us forget to decorate them — and it’s a missed opportunity. “No one ever thinks of those passageways, but you’re in them more often than you realize,” said Allison Lind, an interior designer…
“It all boils down to people needing to remember there’s a person on the other side of the screen who deserves space and support, time and rest,” Mr. Sparks said. Credit…Andrea Chronopoulos Lucia Lee, a middle-school teacher in Brookline, Mass., posts photos of kimchi jjigae and seared mackerel to Instagram: neatly framed, overhead shots of…