Right out of the gate after being hired as artistic director of Louis Vuitton mens’s wear, Virgil Abloh scored a whopping commercial hit with an iridescent plastic tote bag, or “keepall,” he called the Prism. In the hours since Mr. Abloh’s death at 41, of a rare cancer, was made public, people struggled to characterize…
Virgil Abloh, the celebrated fashion designer, died at 41 after being diagnosed with the rare cancer. Here’s what we know about it.
Home-baked fruit pies were a way of life for Jerry Brimeyer, who grew up on an Iowa farm. Later, when business took him to England, he discovered Cornish pasties, the savory hand pies wrapped in flaky pastry. He’s joined the two at Oggie’s, his addition to DeKalb Market in Brooklyn. He sells assorted pasties and…
Baking and serving, with pie as the obvious candidate, are the designated purposes for this French dish, though it’s amenable to other foods, even unbaked. A new addition to Made In’s line of handsome yet utilitarian porcelain, it’s a standard 9 inches in diameter, inside, rim to rim, and 10.7 inches wide overall. The capacity…
“The House of Gucci” is not exactly a food flick, so the panettone from Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in Beverly Hills, Calif., doesn’t figure in the plot. But Mr. Bottura’s executive chef, Mattia Agazzi, worked with a panettone master, Roy Schvartzapel, on two versions of the tall eggy dome of Christmas cake for the…
Having burnished his culinary skills in the kitchens of Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Nobu Matsuhisa, the chef Chris Cheung returned to the food of Manhattan’s Chinatown, where he was born and raised, to create his casual East Wind Snack Shops in Brooklyn. In “Damn Good Chinese Food,” his first cookbook, Mr. Cheung is your guide to…
Cricket’s Candy Creations, a new outlet for children’s creativity, experimentation and messing around, has opened in Hudson Square. Cricket Azima, a chef and entrepreneur who specializes in working with children and runs the Creative Kitchen, with online and in-person activities, and the Kids Food Festival, with events in various locations nationwide, has opened a spacious…
Fine caviar is a year-round indulgence, but especially so at holiday time. At Hancock St. restaurant in the West Village, which opened earlier this year, John McDonald, the owner, and his chef, Ryan Schmidtberger, offer an uncommonly affordable caviar service. For $165 at dinner and brunch, a rock-bottom price even compared with what retailers are…
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries — about 50 in all, including at least 26 that are unique to it. But more does not necessarily mean worse: Mutations sometimes work together to make a virus more fearsome, but they may also…
If the instructions are written with enough literary flourish, she said, they may be sufficiently creative to be copyrightable. When the nation’s copyright law was first codified in 1790, cooking was seen as a woman’s domestic responsibility rather than as a professional activity, Ms. Hawkins said. Written recipes are a relatively new invention; many cultures…