The disputes became so severe that Ms. Serrano decided to move the restaurant to a larger space down the block, where there have been fewer troubles. “It was a blessing in disguise for us, really,” she said. “We were honestly busting at the seams.” Nadine Strossen, a professor at the New York Law School, said…
I am a teacher, and when wearing a mask at the school where I work, I find it easier to keep my hair in a ponytail. What is the best way to make this look professional? I’d prefer not to turn into a character from “Grease” or be mistaken for a teenager. — Yael, Bronx,…
Courtesy of Savage x Fenty; Courtesy of Patricia von Musulin Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “I seem to be transcending generations,” says jeweler Patricia von Musulin. It’s quite the understatement: her creations were just seen on the models in Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Vol. 3 extravaganza,…
LONDON — Fried chicken, crispy chicken, chicken schnitzel: Is there another dish so ubiquitous and yet, so particular? Everyone has one, yes, but everyone has their own. An “Around the World in 80 Dishes” cookbook could easily be filled with nothing but fried chicken recipes: Austrian schnitzel, Korean fried chicken, Italian pollo fritto, Japanese tonkatsu,…
My youngest child recently said to me, “I wish I was more Chinese.” We were eating mooncakes, trying to catch the bits of salted preserved egg yolk crumbling from the sticky-sweet lotus-seed filling. When I asked whether that sentiment applied to how we eat at home, I already knew the answer. We have carbonara as…
Getty + Netflix + Apple TV Back in 2019, aka a lifetime ago, I declared that the ever-popular jumpsuit was the “holy grail of Halloween.” At the time, it made sense: Booksmart, Fleabag, Us—these were the pop culture moments we were obsessing over, and all of them featured at least one perfect jumpsuit. But things…
David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum have been studying bars, booze and drinks for a combined 40 years. So they thought they knew their chosen area of expertise when they began putting together “The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails” nearly a decade ago. As it turns out, they did — and they didn’t. “Naïvely, going…
Foundrae was founded by Beth Bugdaycay and Murat Bugdaycay with the goal of creating not just fine jewelry, but modern heirlooms. The brand is rife with symbolism and meanings both astral and spiritual; in addition to astrology and the zodiac, it creates an original visual vocabulary by mixing concepts together to create timeless pieces. Signature…
If you meet a cute new neighbor and feel something long-dormant “crackle” inside of you, you might want to pay attention. In this week’s Modern Love essay, Amy Shearn explains how a sock that got lost in her building’s laundry led her to a new life. [Like this newsletter? Sign up to receive it in…
My kids’ babysitter asked me the other day how I make my chicken. The girls love it, she said — one of the most gratifying things you can hear when you cook for young kids, who are tiny, tyrannical critics. (Here are more ideas for what to feed them.) My secret is that I use…