Best Sheet Cake Recipes

A lofty layered cake is a lovely thing when the occasion calls for one, but sheet cakes, while maybe not quite as impressive, have a lot going for them. Not only are they easier to bake — no annoying trimming or crumb coatings required — but they also feed a crowd and travel well, so…

Glossier Gets a Makeover

On a Saturday afternoon in late January, a stretch of North Sixth Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn looked as if the internet had physically manifested itself. Direct-to-consumer brands like Everlane, Brooklinen, Interior Define, Parachute Home and Gorjana are interspersed here between the giants: Nike, H&M, Patagonia and Lululemon. Only Glossier, purveyor of youthful…

Thom Browne: The Prince of New York

There is currently a class about the designer Thom Browne being taught not, as one might expect, at Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Technology or even Central Saint Martins, but at the University of Notre Dame. And not by a business professor, or an art professor, but by a philosophy professor. A philosophy professor?…

How to Make Crispy Chicken Skin

As juicy and succulent as the meat of properly roasted chicken may be, I’m really in it for the bronzed bits of skin curling at the edges of the bird. Salty, crispy and slicked with schmaltz, chicken skin is at its best when it’s been seasoned with garlic and salt, then left to sit uncovered…