George T. Stagg Bourbon Will Return in 2022

George T. Stagg, a sought-after Kentucky bourbon whose annual release is an event among aficionados, is returning for 2022, after a two-year absence. There was no 2021 release for George T. Stagg, a barrel-proof, unfiltered bourbon, because Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., did not consider the barrels of whiskey it put down for the…

Ina Garten Makes Risotto With a Longtime Fan

The designer Daniel Roseberry recalls first encountering “Barefoot Contessa,” the cookbook author Ina Garten’s hit series on Food Network, in 2006, during his freshman year at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. He instantly became hooked on the show, in which the warmly bantering Garten welcomes viewers into her East Hampton, N.Y., kitchen and guides…

When You’re Sick at Home

I spent the first week of October laid up with Covid. When I wasn’t laid up in bed, I was laid up on the couch. (A special thanks to teen dramedies for keeping me company.) Unsurprisingly, like anyone who’s under the weather, recovering at home or generally indisposed, cooking was not on my personal agenda.…

Madhur Jaffrey’s Undefinable Roles

“I haven’t given you anything particularly Indian today,” Ms. Jaffrey said, warming a chicken biryani in her kitchen in Hillsdale, New York, the small town upstate where she and her husband, the violinist Sanford Allen, live most of the year when not at their Manhattan apartment. They purchased the property, which is decorated with artwork…

Diwali Sweets for All

While the soup simmers, you could bake a not-too-sweet cornbread to serve alongside, or a sweeter, moist-centered pumpkin bread (which is really cake, who are we kidding?). Or these savory four-cheese flatbreads, which come together quickly using premade naan, flatbread or pita. The recipe calls for corn kernels (fresh, or frozen and thawed), but you…