Melanie Moss, a pastry chef who worked at Babbo and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, went on to open Mini Melanie, a bakery in Brooklyn, with her sister, Diana Moss, a former lawyer. Now they have introduced tall cakes, stacked with layers of buttercream filling and icing, that come with chocolate ganache or other sauces…
Creamy oat milk soft-serve “ice cream” in chocolate, vanilla or a swirl of both (starting at $5.75), is dispensed into big cones or cups and garnished with sauces, sprinkles and other toppings at Whipped, a storefront on the Lower East Side. The owners, sisters Zan B.R., a lawyer, and Courtney Blagrove, with a degree in…
Italy offers many types of prosciutto, from different regions and also from several cuts of pork. Culatta is one of them, new to the American market, and made from a central, most tender part of the boneless thigh. It’s the same cut as is used for the highly prized culatello prosciutto except that for culatta,…
There’s an Indian gin, new to the United States, that’s worth knowing. Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin, made by one of India’s major distillers, Radico Khaitan, offers a dry, aromatic style, with piney, minty, citric notes and a hint of coriander and anise on the palate, to pair well with tonic or in a martini. At…
The site was nearly deserted. A few locals were tidying up after recent restoration work, and young camel drivers were out looking for clients. In the midday heat, the bright glow of the desert helped focus my attention on the pyramids themselves. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, some 150 miles by car…
Although Mr. Agerton had no suicidal or homicidal thoughts, his wife added an extra locking mechanism to a safe containing a pistol. “That he could harm himself or me or the kids hadn’t even occurred to me, but that’s an entirely different element of fear and protection that starts to surge through you,” she said.…
Even today, when most household items are readily available, certain products cannot be rushed — and a subset of old-school artisans continue to take their stubborn time. Consider, for example, the 32-year-old woodworker Sophie Sellu. As the founder and lone employee of the London brand Grain and Knot, she spends six to eight consecutive weeks…
Mondadori PortfolioGetty Images I wish I could say that I did not set out to buy a lying down bra. I wish I could tell you, honestly, that when I ordered the Girlfriend Collective Paloma Bra in Black ($38) I had every intention of wearing it to exercise. But that would be a lie. Several…
Soon after the pandemic started over a year ago, Americans started joking about the dreaded “quarantine 15,” worried they might gain weight while shut in homes with stockpiles of food, glued to computer screens and binge-watching Netflix. The concern is real, but assessing the problem’s scope has been a challenge. Surveys that simply ask people…
Good morning. Melissa Clark and I were talking the other night about our freezers, because that is what people who work in the food game do, and she casually mentioned that she had a bag of chicken hearts in hers, just as I may have said there was a pork butt and a bag of…