A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found a 25% increase in food insufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food insufficiency, the most extreme form of food insecurity, occurs when families do not have enough food to eat. Among the nationally representative sample of 63,674 adults in the US, Black and Latino…
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients in respiratory distress is that the pressure used to inflate the lungs is likely to cause further lung damage. In a new study, scientists identified a molecule that is produced by immune cells during mechanical ventilation to…
The Museum of Food and Drink in Brooklyn will take a deep dive into olive oil, with an online talk as to how it’s made, how to taste it, buy it and use it. It will also address the issue of fraud in the industry. Lorenzo Caponetti, a Tuscan producer; and Skyler Mapes and Giuseppe…
Plenty of alluring plates of food for cold months are what the cooking teacher Susan Herrmann Loomis, who is based in France, provides in her new book, “Plat du Jour.” The seasonally focused recipes are mostly center-of-the-plate fare, including chicken braised in wine with leeks and cream, scallops with celery root purée, classic beef bourguignon,…
For the first time, Juliana’s — opened by Patsy Grimaldi and his late wife, Carol, when he came out of retirement in 2012 — is offering refrigerated pizzas parbaked in the company’s ancient coal-fired ovens in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and ready to finish baking at home. (Mr. Grimaldi is now pushing 90 and has a partner…
The French liqueur crème de cassis, the essential component in a Kir cocktail, is made from black currants, a fruit banned in the United States in 1911 because it carried a fungus that infected white pines. (The dried currants you find in the store are not made from black currants but are a type of…
As easy one-dish meals go, paella deserves to be a kitchen standby. But the notion of so many ingredients make it seem daunting. Not so: It can be simple weeknight supper. Meg Grace Larcom, the corporate chef for the Boqueria restaurants in New York, Chicago and Washington, is ready to show you how to assemble…
In Act IV, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” there’s much talk by Titania and Oberon of flowers and herbs. Harney & Sons, a tea company in Millerton, N.Y., has taken those poetic lines as its cue for a lovely, fragrant blend — including black and oolong teas, with orange peel, ginger root,…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Tommaso at first seemed like a classic red-sauce restaurant when it opened in 1971 in South Brooklyn. But it quickly became a critically admired dining spot frequented by foodies, neighborhood people, Manhattanites and mobsters alike.…
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton No one had a 2020 like Naomi Osaka. Last September, she represented Japan at the U.S. Open and won her second title and third major at only 22 years old. Osaka also advocated for the Black Lives Matter movement throughout the tournament, wearing the names of seven Black Americans who had…