Restaurant Review: Hakka Cuisine in Chinatown

I have eaten sweet-and-sour pork out of takeout containers on the floor of apartments while moving boxes towered over my head. I have plucked out its pineapple wedges and bell peppers with plastic chopsticks under strings of puffer-fish lights at long-gone Polynesian restaurants in New Jersey. I have eaten sweet-and-sour pork in which sugar and…

In Israel, Sewing for the Security Forces

Military design was never really a part of the curriculum at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel’s pre-eminent fashion school and the alma mater of Alber Elbaz and other designers. The closest students got to combat thinking was an occasional collaboration, or upcycling old army uniforms donated by the…