The destinations that the food writer Katie Parla covers in her cookbook “Food of the Italian Islands,” range from large and well-known — Sicily, Sardinia, Capri and Venice (yes, an archipelago knitted with bridges) — to mere freckles in the sea. Ms. Parla, who lives in Italy and has Sicilian roots, covers not just food…
NEW ORLEANS — In this storied Louisiana city, where shrimp étouffée, gumbo and po’ boys loom large, red beans and rice stand above. “I don’t think New Orleans would be the city that it is if we didn’t have not only rich traditions and history, but also red beans and rice,” said Freddie King III,…
Spring might be just around the corner, as Toad’s friend Frog says, but it certainly doesn’t feel that way in New York yet. I still need to layer on scarf-hat-and-gloves before heading out to face the wind, but I make up for it with a hot bowl of soup for dinner. Recently I simmered a…
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” may have been the big winner of the 95th Academy Awards, a vote by the industry for idiosyncrasy in the face of corporate moviemaking, but on the red — whoops, sorry, champagne — carpet, classicism ruled. Its color may have changed, reportedly in an effort to inject some modernity into…
WHEN THE FRENCH chef Yann Nury moved to New York 17 years ago to work in private events for the restaurateur Daniel Boulud, he’d often be sent to cook in Park Avenue penthouses — “some of the most beautiful places in the city,” he recalls. But the home he really coveted was a client’s loft…
Sayre Quevedo had reached the end of a five-month affair with a married man when, in the middle of a snowstorm in the winter of 2017, he received a text from his former lover, asking to see him one last time. This particular whirlwind of a relationship, which they decided together could no longer continue,…
According to one recent analysis, over half of teachers surveyed are considering quitting. Here are five that already have.
There was frost on the tent when we awoke at 5 a.m. As we climbed back up to the tripod location, the landscape felt newly familiar. All the uncertainty of the dark dissolved, like shadows in a nightmare. Now I saw the view as Adams had seen it. Although I couldn’t yet know for sure,…
SCARLETT That has been my biggest insecurity. I create a look and immediately think: “It’s too simple. People will think I’m a hack.” It has taken me a long time to own it. How do you navigate all the egos in your industry? McMILLAN Let’s be clear: The celebrities are not the problem. Bryce and…
“Aligoté expresses terroir almost more than chardonnay,” he told me in 2017. Not many Burgundy producers would take that position, much less act on it. But Mr. Pataille had the courage of his convictions, and wine lovers are the beneficiaries. Gaia Ritinitis Nobilis Gaia is a fine producer of Greek wines, but I want to…