By Zoey Poll This spring, the recently renovated Bourdelle Museum in Paris’s Montparnasse district opened a luminous new cafe-restaurant, Le Rhodia, named after the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle’s daughter. The spare, daffodil yellow dining room occupies the second story of a 19th-century artist’s studio where Rhodia Bourdelle and her husband, the Art Deco interior designer…
It’s easy to forget that rhubarb is a vegetable. Much of the time, you’ll find it buried, like a fruit, under an avalanche of sugar baked into a pie, crumble or cake, or maybe simmered into a compote. But rhubarb isn’t just for dessert. With a bracing acidity reminiscent of citrus or pomegranate and no…
People who showed up to their restaurant jobs while sick were linked to 40 percent of food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause from 2017 to 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released on Tuesday. Paid sick leave and other policies that support sick workers could improve food safety…
The chef Sam Fore received an ominous voice mail message this month from an unknown number. The caller identified himself as a private investigator working for the James Beard Foundation. Later that day, Ms. Fore found herself on a Zoom call, answering questions from him and another man. “They said to me, ‘We have an…
“You don’t always have to grill when we ‘throw something on the grill.’” This from Millie Peartree in a New York Times Cooking YouTube video, where she proves her point with a fantastic new recipe for oven barbecue ribs, made in the kitchen start to finish. The recipe combines a dry rub with barbecue sauce…
Binge eating disorder entered the diagnostic manual on mental health conditions 10 years ago. It’s still getting overlooked.
Unofficial summer is officially underway. I’m looking forward to eating outdoors as much as humanly possible before it gets unbearably hot. (I’m a summer agnostic.) That said, it’s reader question time and, as usual, my inbox was full of thoughtful and fun requests, including where to go for large-format dining, where to find carciofi alla…
New York’s Peking duck enthusiasts have had reason to be on edge lately. In the fall, a kitchen fire knocked down Decoy, the small, sunken rathskeller below RedFarm in the West Village that once served what many people considered the finest version of the dish in the city. The restaurant is expected to survive, but…
This week, the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side is being treated to a new scoop shop. In the space that housed Noglu, the gluten-free bakery imported from Paris by Eli Zabar now a few doors south, Mr. Zabar’s son Sasha is opening Glace (French for ice cream) on Friday. Its roster of…
Blue Box Café by Daniel Boulud at Tiffany & Company In the newly reopened flagship store, breakfast (a continental option for $32 and a more elaborate spread for $58), afternoon tea ($98) and an à la carte menu are served from lunch through early supper in an airy, bejeweled Tiffany blue setting designed by Peter…