Santa Teresa, an elegant rum estate established not far from Caracas, Venezuela, in 1796, is still going strong. Its Santa Teresa 1796 Solera Rum — processed using the solera method, like sherry, and aged in bourbon oak barrels, whiskey oak barrels and French limousin oak barrels — has a dark, brooding complexity best enjoyed in…
There’s a story to be told about Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village. Less than a decade ago, the graduation rate at the school was 46 percent. With the arrival of a new principal, Sam Sochet, the situation began to improve. Last year, the rate was nearly 80 percent, and the curriculum has…
Biltong is South African beef jerky, succulent and less stringy than the American kind, and this new West Village food store specializes in it. The house biltong is made from traditional grass-fed or aged beef, among other options, and thin little slices often have a richness that’s worthy of a platter or cheese board. The…
The chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Streetbird flies again. His closed Harlem restaurant specialized in fried chicken, and the dish is now available for delivery nationwide. All it requires is a quick reheat. In the kit, which serves four, you get four battered, golden-brown back-quarters (legs and thighs) with cornbread waffles, pickles and hot honey for drizzling…
Dirt Candy, the chef Amanda Cohen’s vegetarian restaurant on the Lower East Side, has emerged four months after closing. Her new menu includes a vegetarian version of a muffuletta sandwich. Smoked celeriac never made it into the classic from Central Grocery in New Orleans. But here, it’s among the paper-thin layers of vegetables like eggplant,…
Despite the lack of effective treatments or preventive strategies, the dementia epidemic is on the wane in the United States and Europe, scientists reported on Monday. The risk for a person to develop dementia over a lifetime is now 13 percent lower than it was in 2010. Incidence rates at every age have steadily declined…
THE NAVAJO NATION — When Summer Brown lived in Phoenix, she had no problem finding fresh produce. If the Sprouts supermarket near her home didn’t have what she was looking for, she would just drive somewhere else. This winter, Ms. Brown, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, moved back to her childhood home in…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens — in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Andria Hautamaki shares a collection of images from rural Patagonia. Known…
Courtesy of Nike / CAMPFIRE LLC “It’s funny because I don’t even think of myself as a role model,” pro tennis star Naomi Osaka tells ELLE.com in an email interview. “I’m 22 and figuring out life and trying to grow.” What’s actually funny is that her true talent is downplaying her accomplishments among them winning…
Good morning. “Manual competence” is the ideal Matthew Crawford speaks up for in his excellent 2010 book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Iinto the Value of Work.” Crawford’s a mechanic and a philosopher. He has no truck with craftsmanship or artistry. He speaks instead for the importance of trade work — “work that is…