My family loves squash soup. At home, I make a lot of kabocha no nimono, a classic Japanese dish featuring chunky, skin-on dice of kabocha squash simmered in dashi broth seasoned with mirin and sake. As the squash softens, it absorbs the broth, giving each bite a powerful but balanced mix of umami, sweetness and…
Alleva Dairy, a 130-year-old Little Italy cheese store known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella, will close in March after a long battle with its landlord over back rent. It’s just the latest passing of a historic business in the Manhattan neighborhood, whose demographics have changed significantly in the past few decades. “We don’t know…
The dance floor is a hallmark of a wedding — it’s where guests can let loose and memories are often made. Of course, not all music at a wedding comes from the party portion. There are also those vibe-setting, lovey-dovey tracks that play throughout the event, and those are just as significant as the dance…
I sort of love Valentine’s Day and harbor no cynicism toward it: It’s one of the few days on the calendar devoted to being sweet to others. I know this makes me corny, and I simply do not care. The handmade card on construction paper, the freshly baked brownies, the bowl of spaghetti carbonara —…
I sort of love Valentine’s Day and harbor no cynicism toward it: It’s one of the few days on the calendar devoted to being sweet to others. I know this makes me corny, and I simply do not care. The handmade card on construction paper, the freshly baked brownies, the bowl of spaghetti carbonara —…
I sort of love Valentine’s Day and harbor no cynicism toward it: It’s one of the few days on the calendar devoted to being sweet to others. I know this makes me corny, and I simply do not care. The handmade card on construction paper, the freshly baked brownies, the bowl of spaghetti carbonara —…
Hit the health headlines recently, and you’ll no doubt have seen stories hailing red wine as a miracle cure-all, with some claiming that it can add years to your life. With so much hype surrounding this controversial beverage, it can be not easy to discern fact from fiction. So what’s the real story? Read on…
OSCEOLA, Iowa — So many of Deborah Krauss’s friends and neighbors have died of drug overdoses during the pandemic that she said she felt as if she had been living inside of a dream. The longest she has gone without someone dying, she noted, is three weeks. Her calendar grew cluttered with funerals. “I lost…
For 10 years, Eileen Patricia Fitzpatrick and Robert Mitchell Minondo refused to ruin their close-knit friendship. So they never even tested the waters of romance. But they could only hold out for so long. The two met in 2003 in junior high school — at what was then Intermediate School 30 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn —…
From the moment Matthew Alec Davis and Dr. Marc Mahoney Beuttler first made eye contact, they each felt an instant attraction. The two had connected on the dating app Grindr and agreed to meet on Aug. 11, 2015 at the now-closed restaurant Yuki Izakaya in New Orleans, where they talked easily over dinner. “Our eyebrows…