The Taiwanese restaurant 886 doesn’t stay open particularly late by the standards of its neighborhood, the East Village. Even on weekends, it closes at midnight. Still, drenched in purple neon, with most of its seating on stackable plastic stools, it looks like a place where you go in the portion of the evening when errors…
The sockeye salmon harvest in the Bristol Bay area of southeast Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record. State officials are reporting a run of 74 million fish, mostly from Bristol Bay, during a season that started on June 1 and continues until early August. Bristol Bay, the world’s largest source for…
French cheeses need no introduction. But in recent years selections from elsewhere in Europe and the United States have challenged the hegemony of Roquefort and Reblochon. Back in 2014, the French Dairy Board opened a storefront on Spring Street to promote its cheeses. Now it has moved to a larger, two story space nearby. The…
The work of Jono Pandolfi, a ceramist based in Union City, N.J., adorns the tables of a number of restaurants, among them Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Nougatine. This month, he is offering a serving set designed for Mr. Vongerichten’s Seeds & Weeds, a restaurant soon to open in the Tin Building market in the Seaport District. The…
Cassis should be Rachael Petach’s middle name. A year and a half ago she introduced C. Cassis, her Hudson Valley version of the French liqueur, the essential ingredient for a Kir. Now with her local blackcurrant liqueur as a base (cassis means black currant in French), she’s introduced a spritz. Some botanicals, honey and citrus…
To understand what might be different about the way grilling is done in Israel compared with the typical American backyard, it will pay to tune into a rooftop session for the 92nd Street Y by the Israeli chef Michael Solomonov from his Brooklyn restaurant Laser Wolf, where charcoal reigns. With the cookbook author Eden Grinshpan…
Churros, the irresistibly crunchy fluted cruller strips from the Iberian Peninsula that are often snacks and desserts in Spain, Portugal, Mexico and across Latin America, pair perfectly with ice cream. At ChikaLicious Dessert Bar, Chika and Don Tillman’s sweet spot in the East Village, they’re being twisted into crisp ice cream cones. They’re filled with…
When assessing how likely a given meal, snack or drink is to harm your dental health, there are two main things to consider, experts say.
The surprise wedding of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas over the weekend — as announced by Ms. Lopez — set tongues wagging across the internet. And, perhaps, it set a precedent for weddings to come (the copycat wedding gowns are already in production). Perhaps most notable…
LOS ANGELES — The colors are fading, but the photograph of the Carnegie Deli from 2008 still calls up a world of heaping pastrami sandwiches, pungent smells of brine and smoke, and tourists lined out the door onto Seventh Avenue in New York. A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle…