Caroline Ellison, a government witness and the former chief executive of Alameda Research (the trading arm of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s empire) and Mr. Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend, testified in court that “he said he thought his hair had been very valuable.” Ever since an early job at the Wall Street firm Jane Street, Ms. Ellison testified, “he…
I once read an interview with the French chef Alain Ducasse, in which he said: “Sugar is the enemy of chocolate.” Mr. Ducasse owns his own chocolate company, which makes extraordinary bars and truffles, so I’d be inclined to take his word for it, even if all of my experience as a baker didn’t back…
Wherever you look, there it is. It took over fast food restaurants, bistros and Instagram. When served perfectly, it always attracts attention and whets the appetite. Savoury or sweet, eaten on site or taken to go. Tortilla is definitely one of those snacks you should have in your offer this season. Find out which tortilla…
On Tuesday night, at a candlelit event space near Penn Station in Manhattan, Mayor David Holt of Oklahoma City leaned over and introduced himself to Lily Gladstone, a star of Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Victor J. Glover Jr., the first Black astronaut on the International Space Station for an extended…
Families stroll and savor gelato cones as bike couriers whiz by. Pensioners relax on benches near manicured flower beds while earbud-wearing hipsters walk dogs and children chase pigeons by a fountain laden with bronze fish. The scene in Victory Square in Timisoara, Romania, is quintessentially European — modern meets Old World. Scanning the imposing Art…
Good morning. You make corn muffins with corn meal, which is dried ground corn. I like those split and griddled in butter. You make tortillas and pupusas with masa harina, which is corn that’s been cooked and steeped in an alkaline solution (a process known as nixtamalization), then dried and ground. A homemade tortilla is…
Over the past 70 years, the skateboard has been on quite a ride. It first emerged in 1950s Los Angeles as a humble, homemade toy, but, before long, it became a bona fide cultural phenomenon — spawning skate parks, street style and video games before, finally, becoming an Olympic sport at the 2020 Games. The…
He placed the block into the heated forge and waited about 35 minutes, removing the block when it was molten. “Then we fold it and cut it,” he said. “Fold it over and forge weld it back together again.” When Mr. Brennan decided it was finished, he said, “It’s €2,500, just for that piece of…
As part of the preparations for her first solo exhibition, held this past summer at the NOW Gallery in South London, Simone Brewster designed “Crown,” a set of wooden combs inspired by traditional African hairstyles. But since the multidisciplinary artist and designer already was creating jewelry and paintings for the selling show, designing its layout…
The first time Althea Cajero saw someone pull a piece of cast silver out of a cuttlefish mold, revealing a pattern of wavy lines in the metal, she was hooked. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do,” she said. Now, nearly 20 years later, she still uses cuttlebone — the chalky internal shell of…