Mark Bradford found his way to becoming an artist while working in his mother’s beauty shop. The Los Angeles-born artist used layers of the cheap end papers — thin delicate sheets used to protect hair from burning during perming — instead of paint in the early works that would soon earn him an international reputation,…
Ivan Menezes, who as chief executive of the spirits corporation Diageo used his canny understanding of the drinking public to help the company grow into a global colossus, died on June 7 in London. He was 63. The cause was complications of emergency surgery for a stomach ulcer, a Diageo spokesman said. Diageo is omnipresent…
During the Food section’s weekly staff meeting, everyone went absolutely nuts over the photo of Hetty McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette (above). Hetty’s recipes are always top-shelf, but this one goes above and beyond with its gorgeous, summery simplicity. She marinates a mix of tomatoes with grated garlic, basil and salt while…
Meatballs in tomato sauce are a comforting thing, a ruddy, garlicky Italian American classic meant to be nestled on a pile of spaghetti and showered in cheese. This dish is not that. True, it has meatballs, assertively flavored with garlic and browned in hot oil. And yes, they finish cooking in a savory, brick-red tomato…
There’s a new tech titan in town and he’s preparing to enter the pantheon. How do we know? Well, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has the company: He co-founded Nvidia in 1993, and the market cap is now about $950 billion, though at the end of May it was briefly in the $1…
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Lip reading is hardly an exact science. Jeremy Freeman, 49, who has been called upon as an expert lip reader in cases involving sexual assault, insurance fraud and other serious matters, described it as a skill that can be honed with considerable practice. For Mr. Freeman, who was born deaf, the practice has “been ingrained…
Aisha Kamaria Cole, who goes by the name Pinky Cole, has been called a visionary and a provocateur. She also has a knack for helping meat eaters step outside their comfort zones at her plant-based burger chain, Slutty Vegan. Stepping outside her own comfort zone became a priority when she met Derrick Jermaine Hayes, the…
The panini arranged in soft mounds in the vitrine of Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue fairly ooze. There is the tuna, decadently layered with marinated artichoke; the pillowy frittata; the turkey stacked high with mozzarella and tomato and shellaced with Dijon mustard, all as savory looking as they are seductive. As they should be, said…
Around the world, most of the 1.4 billion tons of food thrown away each year goes to landfills. As it rots, it pollutes water and soil and releases huge amounts of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases. But not in South Korea, which banned food scraps from its landfills almost 20 years ago.…