At the Emmy Awards on Monday night, The White Lotus’ Simona Tabasco brought a bit of the show’s fresh and summery Italian aesthetic to the red carpet. She arrived in a custom hourglass dress from Marni, adorned with a collage of hand-sewn florals. Rosettes might have been the trend at the award shows this past…
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In 2014, when I had my first meal at the Simone, you could have described it as slightly behind the times. The pace was languid. The menus were handwritten. The chef, Chip Smith, molded regional American flavors over a frame of French technique. The dining room, on the ground floor of an Upper East Side…
A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp for me meant refugee sites, ration lines; for Adam, summer and water sports. After we met in college, he gave me my first bouquet. I plucked flowers from his gift (and the college grounds) to create my own bouquet for him. “You…
On Monday night at the 75th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Christina Applegate, a presenter of the award for supporting actress in a comedy series, used a cane and walked to the podium with effortful dignity. The 52-year-old actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, wore a red, silk-velvet dress, her signature blond…
When the chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph was opening Canje in Austin, Texas, in 2021, he did something he had yet to do as a restaurant owner: He decided to tell his own story. Namely, the story of growing up in Georgetown, Guyana, a South American country with deep ties to the Caribbean through food and culture.…
Headliner Weill Café Yes, we know, you get to Carnegie Hall with “practice, practice.” And once you get there, starting Saturday for dinner and Monday for breakfast, lunch and coffee, you can have something to eat. On Monday, the new Weill Café, occupying the stately, cream-colored room, recently renovated with gold and burgundy accents, that…
Hello! Mia here, the newsletter editor for New York Times Cooking, filling in for Emily. I hope everyone is enjoying a happy and healthy new year. I am a grown woman who enjoys eating her vegetables. I say this not as a terrifically awkward introduction, but as a reminder to myself. When it’s cold and…
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One day about 60 years ago, the comedian Bert Lahr put on a devil suit, held up a potato chip and uttered a phrase that would become a food-marketing milestone: “Betcha can’t eat just one.” Positioning food as deliciously addictive, as Lay’s did in its sly TV commercial, became advertising gold. In the decades that…