Image A night view of Havana, which has drawn an increasing number of American travelers.CreditRobert Rausch for The New York Times For Americans who want to visit Cuba, things got even murkier as the Trump administration last week said that it would further restrict nonfamily travel to the island. The new restrictions are part of…
The extinction of plastic bags is coming, so you may as well prepare. Reusable Stasher bags are a silicone alternative to disposable zipper-locked sandwich and storage bags. The company makes them in a range of translucent colors in five sizes — pocket, snack, sandwich, half-gallon and 12-cup stand-up. All have press-and-seal closures and are suitable…
Suzanne Dumaine — a trained chef, recipe developer and writer — is flying solo at her own West Village grocery and cafe, Three Owls Market. She’s stocking the shelves with items that look to Italy, like pastas, cheeses, olive oils, sauces and a small selection of everyday food staples. Chickens raised in the Catskills are…
Sobaya, a Japanese restaurant in the East Village that makes its soba noodles and serves them in more than two dozen ways, has just introduced dried soba noodles to take home. The restaurant also sells a special soba sauce, with a soy-sauce base and plenty of umami, to toss on the needle-thin buckwheat pasta, served…
The approach taken by Hotel Chocolat has been to increase the amount of chocolate and decrease the sugar in its confections since it began in London in 2014. Angus Thirlwell, a founder, even bought a cacao plantation on St. Lucia in the Caribbean, which is the source for some of its cacao; most comes from…
If you make your own tortillas and tostadas, there’s a new masa harina to consider. (Masa harina, the corn flour used for tortillas, has been nixtamalized, or treated with slaked lime to remove the corn hulls, soften it and improve the digestibility of its nutrients.) Masienda, a company that specializes in products made from heirloom…
We have our blue crabs, but invasive green crabs from Europe, which have been in our waters for two centuries (uninvited arrivals by ship) are predators that attack the blues, especially the soft-shells. They also wreck the eelgrass and other beneficial maritime environments. The idea now is to eat the green crabs as a way…
Image Elizabeth OlsenCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Elizabeth Olsen has been exposed to the Hollywood scene since she was a child. She is the little sister of Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, after all. Now with a thriving career of her own — she is in the latest Marvel movie, “Avengers: Endgame,” out April…
HOUSTON — This city’s Second Ward is full of temptations for Adán Medrano, a writer and chef who lives just a few miles southeast. The Mexican-American neighborhood is home to the perfect flaky tortillas at Doña María Mexican Cafe, scratch-made in flour or corn, and ready to be folded around eggs with the fine threads…
Skipping breakfast may increase your risk for cardiovascular disease. The connection, found in a study of 6,550 adults aged 65 to 75, was particularly strong for stroke. Almost 60 percent of the participants had breakfast every day, a quarter on some days, and 16 percent rarely or never. All were free of heart disease at…