By Malaika Byng Visitors expecting shiny new things from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s first design-focused exhibition will be in for a surprise. “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense,” which opens at London’s Design Museum on April 7, features broken ceramics and historic relics, including spouts of wine ewers from the Song dynasty (960 to 1279) and…
With a small stack of handmade tortillas at her side, a shy Mexican grandmother in a purple apron looked at the camera and introduced herself to the world. “I’m going to present to you this recipe,” Doña Ángela, or Mrs. Ángela, says in her first YouTube video, from August 2019, speaking Spanish in a dulcet…
We all look forward to spring and summer vegetables, but it’s still a bit too early for peas and asparagus, even here on the West Coast. So let’s enjoy the great cool-weather produce at the market while we can. I’m still excited about the radicchio. Rapini greens, a.k.a. broccoli rabe, are always welcome at my…
HONG KONG — Yang Bing-yi, the founder of Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese restaurant chain whose signature soup dumplings have attracted crowds around the world and one of the rare Asian restaurants to win a Michelin star, has died at 96. The company announced his death in a statement on Saturday. It did not say…
Since I was about 13 and saw a tiny photo of one in an outdated Spanish language textbook, I’ve been dreaming about going to a calçotada — a Catalonian get-together where people grill loads of calçots, a spring onion as slender as a baby leek, and then eat them heaped with romesco sauce. I’m sad…
It feels like a luxury in New York too, to eat sopa de maní on a cold and bright winter afternoon, at a plank of a table under a makeshift roof in Sunnyside, Queens. This is where Bolivian Llama Party makes its claim for Bolivian food as essential to the city. The owners are three…
No Restaurants Allowed I visit the city regularly, and my wife and I are looking for a good bar with a real bartender that serves good food at the bar. I do not want to be part of a restaurant. If it is part of a restaurant, I want it to be sufficiently separated so…
Headliner Seoul Salon This New York interpretation of a Korean sooljib, a spot for drinking, is from Ellia and Junghyun JP Park, the wife-and-husband team who own Atomix, Atoboy and Naro with their partner Hand Hospitality. At the entrance, a cocktail bar, run by Jiyoon Baek, features drinks that lean on traditional Korean spirits. A…
Ten years after the Cronut, croissants are still taking on new shapes, sporting swirls and stripes and drawing crowds. When the baker Amadou Ly spotted the right moment to pull his croissant dough from the roller, it flowed like silk over his wooden counter. It had taken three days of precisely executed fermentation and lamination,…
In the summer of 2022, the clothing designer Olivia Villanti passed seven weeks driving through France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia and Montenegro with her husband, Guillaume Guevara, an entrepreneur, and their young son. While on the trip, she would spend most weekends scavenging flea markets, picking out shirts with details like an elegant cutaway collar or…