Chile Crisp Is Even Good With Ice Cream

On Oct. 22, 2018, at 8:59 a.m. Pacific time, Jenny Gao, the Los Angeles-based chef and founder of the Sichuan condiment company Fly By Jing, posted a photo on Twitter: an advertisement she saw at a shop in Chongqing, China, featuring a towering swirl of soft-serve vanilla ice cream, a slick of crimson-red, debris-studded chile…

New Queens Shop Serves Nigerian Food

Beatrice Ajaero grew up on Roosevelt Island, where she still lives, and has an African food and gift stall, Ibari, which she opened after obtaining a law degree and an M.B.A., in the Saturday market. Her new store, Nneji, in Astoria, Queens, has a limited menu, for takeaway, featuring West African red stew with chicken,…

An Accidental First Date

A few days before they were supposed to have their first date, in February 2018, a sharp-eyed friend of Andrea Raines’s saw a man walking by the San Francisco bar that the women were waiting to enter. The man looked exactly like the picture Ms. Raines had just shared of her soon-to-be date from his…