Picnicking is an easy socially distant gathering for lunch or dinner. Versa, a rooftop bar and restaurant atop the Renaissance New York Midtown hotel, has assembled picnic baskets that can be ordered for delivery on Saturdays or Sundays to eight Manhattan parks, including Bryant Park, the Sheep Meadow and the Mall in Central Park and…
Alan Batt, the food photographer known as Battman, traveled around the country interviewing and photographing black chefs for his latest volume, “Toques in Black.” The book profiles 101 chefs, including the legendary Leah Chase of New Orleans, who died last year. Among the others are Adrienne Cheatham of SundayBest pop-up dinners in Harlem, with uni…
Black Americans have been called by many names in the United States. African American, Negro, colored and the unutterable slur that rhymes with bigger. In recent weeks, as protests against police brutality and racism have flooded the streets and social media, another more inclusive term has been ascribed to the population: BIPOC. The acronym stands…
The authorities in Beijing placed a swath of the city under lockdown on Monday and tested tens of thousands of people as they rushed to contain a new coronavirus outbreak that marked an unnerving breach in China’s capital. President Xi Jinping had said from the outset that Beijing, the seat of Communist Party power and…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageAn ambulance in New York in April, at the height of the pandemic. Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times The F.D.A. withdrew emergency approval for malaria drugs promoted by Trump. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it was revoking emergency authorization of two malaria drugs to treat Covid-19, saying…
The term “compound butter” doesn’t sound very delicious. If you weren’t already familiar with its creamy, herb-speckled joys, you might decide to give it a pass. But then you’d be missing out on one of the easiest, most versatile recipes in the whole pantry cooking repertoire. Because as long as you’ve got butter (vegan butter…
You might not have noticed it (there’s a lot going on) but there was some good news last week in a study in JAMA that suggested that racial disparities in extremely premature infants were shrinking. The study looked at more than 20,000 extremely preterm infants (22 to 27 weeks gestation) born from 2002 to 2016.…
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. The pandemic has forced restaurants to confront an urgent question: Was technology helping or hurting them? For Glasserie, a Mediterranean restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y., the answer was both. When restaurants were forced to close for sit-down meals,…
We wouldn’t be surprised if the current time period, specifically the late 2010s to the early 2020s, is one day branded as the age of comebacks. From ’90s revivals to the return of questionable early-aughts trends—to this season’s continuing ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s renaissance—the fashion industry has been heavy-handedly leaning into the culture’s growing obsession…
With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve 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, Michael Benanav shares a collection of portraits from Gujarat, a state in western India. With around 10,000 cases reported daily,…