The James Beard Foundation presented its coveted culinary awards for 2023 in Chicago on Monday night, with the top awards going to Rob Rubba of Oyster Oyster in Washington, D.C., as outstanding chef and to Friday Saturday Sunday in Philadelphia as outstanding restaurant. Reflecting the awards’ growing clout, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago and Gov.…
Andrew Bellucci, who in the 1990s became one of the first chefs in New York City to achieve fame for pizza, then lost his job and reputation when an old crime caught up with him, only to return more than two decades later to a city full of pizzaioli inspired by his artisanal, traditionalist approach,…
“The Soviet Union said, ‘You guys don’t do wine, you do brandy,’” Mr. Keushguerian said. As he tells it in the film, the Soviets forced growers to abandon their hillside vineyards and the ancient varieties they used for wine. New vineyards were planted in the flat areas, where farming could be industrialized, with the grapes…
The African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has inspired a program on June 17, during the weekend before Juneteenth, to highlight the plants and foods of the Caribbean. From 10 a.m. until noon, there will be a conversation between the scholar Jessica B. Harris and the writer Jamaica Kincaid about…
Happy Monday, everyone. Margaux Laskey here, filling in for Melissa Clark today. Big shoes to fill! But I’m happy to be here. I might spend 42 hours constructing a geode birthday cake, but please don’t ask me to fry anything. The mess, the time, the waste? No, thanks. But when my colleague Alexa Weibel asked…
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Over the weekend, the fine jewelry community came together once again at the 2023 Couture show in Las Vegas, with lots of color, creativity, and innovation. We saw designers, both established and emerging, expand on themes that stayed true to their brands with bigger and bolder statement pieces, as well as creative stone and material…
When Sydney Cox, 21, arrived on the University of Texas’s Austin campus in fall 2021, she was eager to find her people. During the worst of the pandemic, she had spent her freshman year attending classes over Zoom. So when she returned for her sophomore year, she was craving connection. That fall, she ticked all…
Left: Dress, earrings, necklace, $2,150, sandals, $790, Dior. Right: Jumpsuit, $4,100, earrings, necklace, $2,150, ring, $530, sandals, Dior.Dolly Devi Where you might see stitches, Maria Grazia Chiuri sees a language. Specifically, “a language of women.” The painstaking work that they have been doing in domestic spaces, without fanfare or recognition, is like an oral history…
The story still resonates: More than 60 years ago, Los Angeles police officers were routinely harassing the gay and transgender people who gathered at Cooper Do-nuts, a 24-hour spot in the city’s seedy gay circuit known as the Run. Then one evening in May 1959, some fed-up drag queens, hustlers and other customers pushed back,…