Your Foam Coffee Cup Is Fighting for Its Life

MASON, Mich. — The Dart Container Corporation, by some measures, is an American success story. The family-owned business was co-founded in Michigan by a World War II veteran with a triple major in mathematics, engineering and metallurgy, and it developed products that, in no small way, helped fuel the modern economy. Dart makes, by the…

Canned Artichokes Deserve Your Respect

I love to do things in the kitchen that take up a lot of time, tasks that feel special and maybe a little fussy. Things like soaking precious beans overnight, shucking pounds of fresh peas from their pod and gingerly trimming thorny raw artichokes to steam and eat with clarified butter. I also love convenience,…

Actual Decadence!

Good morning. Valentine’s Day is Friday, a Hallmark holiday for some, with cards and chocolates and roses of questionable provenance, dinners in candlelight, public displays of affection set to stun. If you’re celebrating, I hope you have your reservations made or your caviar order in. You don’t want to be scrambling around on Thursday or…

On Broadway, the Art of Adornment

Given the scarcity of space in Manhattan, New Yorkers often imagine vast possibilities for places that others would consider suitable for a walk-in closet. That was what happened two years ago, when Karen Davidov found a one-room office on the eighth floor at 1239 Broadway, downstairs from the studio where she works with her architect…

Shopping for Accessory Storage

If you don’t wear all of your jewelry and accessories round the clock — and all at the same time — you need somewhere to store them. But not all storage methods are equally kind to treasured pieces. “We definitely see people who will just throw a chain into a bag, and it turns into…