Who introduced you to your first tuna and potato chip sandwich? A lunchroom friend? A parent? Or perhaps it was your own early culinary invention? Despite its popularity (and undeniable deliciousness), tracking down its provenance has proved difficult. By 1959, according to what was then the United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 8 out of…
Perhaps you’re dreaming of summer happy hours and you’ve already ordered a case of your favorite rosé. If not, Parcelle Wine is offering a chance to play the field: Get a subscription for three bottles of rosé each month from May through September. The wines on offer include some highly regarded labels like Tibouren Clos…
A talk about James Hemings and clips from a 2021 documentary about him will be part of a program produced by the Museum of Food and Drink in New York, at the Africa Center early next month. Hemings, who was held in slavery by Thomas Jefferson, learned French cooking on a trip to Paris and…
On the heels of introducing its Tunisian-style preserved lemon condiment, La Boîte, the spice store in Hell’s Kitchen, has collaborated again with the chef Eric Ripert and the preserve-maker Le Bon Magot for its new, sweetly tangy kumquat compote with Cognac. As devoted a cook as you might be, don’t be shy about leaving to…
In time for warmer weather and well-chilled cocktails, slushy desserts and refreshing snow cones, KitchenAid has added an ice shaver to its roster of mixer attachments. Fill the molds that fit the unit and freeze them, then pop them in, activate your machine and a feathery cloud of shaved ice falls into your waiting container.…
In their new cookbook, Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato describe the unlikely creation of their still-expanding, New York-based Serafina restaurant chain: While stuck on a stranded catamaran in a storm off Long Island in 1994 they swore they’d open the restaurant if they survived. The vibrantly photographed cookbook based on the restaurants’ dishes describes essential…
In 1905, the prima ballerina Anna Pavlova premiered a solo ballet created just for her, “The Dying Swan,” which she would go on to dance about 4,000 times before her death in 1931. “It was a combination of masterful technique with expressiveness,” Michel Fokine, the piece’s choreographer, said of his composition in a 1931 interview…
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Allan Benton started selling country hams here in the 1970s, figuring he could make a better living than he did as a high school guidance counselor. His early efforts were not encouraging. “I would peddle them on the back of a pickup truck up through Maryville, over to Townsend, through Wears Valley…
From wearing matching denim with Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week to accessorizing with a macabre claw choker at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Julia Fox never fails to make a fashion statement. This weekend, the model and actress did it once again, this time on a not-so-casual stroll through New York City. Fox, 32,…
Stand on the summit of Mount Hinodegatake, look inland across the Kii Peninsula, and there before you are a thousand peaks, crumpled earth like tin foil, frozen roil to the horizon, razorback edges of rock and soil. All muted tones. Turn toward the ocean and you’ll see the jagged coast, wrapping from the port of…