When Eric Ripert was a young cook at La Tour D’Argent, possibly the oldest restaurant in Paris and certainly one of the stuffiest, all the cooks sat down before service to a proper French meal: appetizer, entree, dessert and cheese. He is hardly nostalgic for his time there. (“I have PTSD” from the experience, he…
Carly Duguid On the flight to Barcelona. I had never been before so was excited to visit, but I had to fly in and out on the same day since the French Open starts next week. So, it was a quick trip! Carly Duguid The stylist brought me multiple options from Louis Vuitton, but I…
As interest in nonalcoholic wines grows, some of the best in the genre are being made in Germany, which started producing nonalcoholic wines more than 100 years ago. “Germany does it best,” said Roman Roth, the winemaker at Wölffer Estate, a winery in Sagaponack, N.Y., on Long Island, which sells a nonalcoholic sparkling rosé made…
According to Billboard, 32 million Americans will attend a concert this year—and they’ll likely think about Kate Moss before they go. That’s because in 2008, Moss wore The Most Famous Concert Outfit Ever—a sheer golden T-shirt dress paired with a low-slung black belt and mud-streaked Hunter rain boots—that regularly hits TikTok and Instagram Reels to…
There are few moments of political theater as grand as a state dinner, essentially a pantomime of diplomacy and national pride from the set to the staging to the scripts — and the costumes. In that drama, the first lady is cast as both hostess and symbol, her dress a part of the decorative storytelling…
A major clinical trial showed such promising results that the drug’s maker halted it early.
At 87, Pat Seftel has a thought to share about almost everything. On Tinder: “If you want to meet somebody for a real relationship, that’s not the way to do it.” On artificial intelligence: “It could get out of control.” On climate change: “This is destroying our planet.” For more than 10 years, Ms. Seftel…
Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent, is headed for another scorching summer, meteorologists warn. And travelers, once again, are heading to the hot spots. Last year, large parts of southern Europe experienced prolonged periods of extreme heat with temperatures reaching 118 degrees and lasting up to two weeks or more. The sweltering conditions upended vacations throughout…
The Southern California restaurateur Kwini Reed has spent years tying herself — and her business model — in knots trying to meet the competing needs of her customers and her staff. Sometimes it seems like everything from state law to inflation is conspiring to force her to charge $35 for a hamburger, which Ms. Reed…
You don’t need a vacation to embrace a sunnier state of mind.