“It all boils down to people needing to remember there’s a person on the other side of the screen who deserves space and support, time and rest,” Mr. Sparks said. Credit…Andrea Chronopoulos Lucia Lee, a middle-school teacher in Brookline, Mass., posts photos of kimchi jjigae and seared mackerel to Instagram: neatly framed, overhead shots of…
Decorate your breakfast plate with the results from new Takashi Murakami pancake pans bearing the artist’s signature flower patterns. The frolicking flowers decorate his artworks and many commercial products like this one. They leave their imprint on 5-inch griddle cakes; add berries and whipped cream and call it dessert. The stainless steel pans have resin…
If picking a wine can be challenging, try the nonalcoholic versions. The usual benchmarks, like grape variety or region, are often not given or do not strongly influence the end result. Emily Heintz, a retail entrepreneur, opened Sèchey in 2021 in Charleston, S.C., a nonalcoholic beverage store with a tasting counter, to help customers assess…
The low-slung industrial building at 50 Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, formerly housed an auto repair shop. Now a Japanese company specializing in the umami-rich broth dashi, among other things, will open a store on the premises on Friday. It will sell packaged dashi ingredient mixtures, $19 to $45 for 10, 15 or 30 bags,…
Jarred or canned tomato sauces usually stick to classic preparations like marinara and tomato-basil. The chef Tom Colicchio, a New Jersey native, has a new sauce line produced in collaboration with the Jersey Tomato Co., which uses only New Jersey tomatoes. It looks to Italy’s regions for a collection of six distinctive sauces. All with…
An exhibit about New York food that first opened in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London has been transported and revised to make its debut this week at the Museum of the City of New York, a co-presenter of the show. The emphasis is on issues like sustainability, labor, access to food and the…
Has any restaurant in the city pulled off a pandemic reset to better effect than Chambers? It’s built from the earthly remains of Racines NY, a clubhouse for wine nerds that ran on Chambers Street in TriBeCa for about seven years before closing in 2021. Several faces are the same, the floor plan has barely…
Here they are, from least to most expensive. Credit…Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Michel Guignier Beaujolais 2020, 12.5 percent, $16 Straightforward Beaujolais are conventionally considered simple and easy to drink. But this one is more than cheap and cheerful. It has grip and depth, and is full of earthy fruit flavors. Michel Guignier, who is…
If you don’t have the patience for breadmaking (or for baking at all), chances are you’ll still find challah, the enriched bread often served on the Jewish sabbath and during the High Holy Days, not only manageable — but fun. Compared with more technical breads, like sourdough loaves or baguettes, challah is mostly hands-off, with…
Hello, everyone. I missed writing to you when I was out on my summer vacation, though I didn’t miss trying to come up with different ways to say “delicious.” (“Toothsome!”) I returned and plunged directly into fall madness, a maelstrom of back to school, back to office, back to everything. Naturally, as I tried to…