A few months back I ran into a former co-worker and his partner, and I asked him that age-old question: “What neighborhood do you live in again?” His response: “Well, we’re a long-term couple in our mid-30s, so Park Slope.” Park Slope’s reputation as one of Brooklyn’s premier social retirement communities persists for a reason:…
Wine flowed as the next two courses arrived: crispy hogweed alongside deep-fried pigeon leg and smoked fallow deer tartare with a speckled quail eggshell housing its sunny yolk. We sang along to Nelly and Travis Tritt while the dishes kept coming: garden fresh gazpacho, cold smoked oysters scented with fresh yarrow and sorrel, rabbit fillets…
Headliner White Olive The brothers Michael Karim Sopariwalla and Amin Himani, busy restaurateurs in Staten Island and beyond, have joined forces for the first time to open this Mediterranean restaurant, offering tastes of Greece and Turkey in Midtown Manhattan. The two came up with the idea while traveling in the region. The result is a…
Heidrun Meadery was opened in 1997 by Gordon Hull, a geologist and former brewer who began making mead, the ancient honey-based fermented beverage, like Champagne, with a second fermentation in the bottle. Originally based in Arcata, in Northern California, 10 years ago he moved his operation and established his own hives further south, in Point…
LOS ANGELES — You could call it a business founded on the enchilada and saved by the margarita. You could easily call it a Los Angeles institution. But more than anything, after 100 years, El Cholo is a family affair. At 89, Ron Salisbury presides — as he has since 1954 — over the venerable…
146 billion cups of coffee are consumed every year in the US alone, and it’s commonly enjoyed with breakfast, after a meal, or as a mid-afternoon pick-me-up. But there’s more than just one way to consume this delicious caffeinated beverage. If you just can’t get enough of nature’s most delicious bean, here are seven innovative…
Happy New Year! Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I’ve made quite a few, some of which have even stuck. I resolved to run at least a mile every day in 2020, which I did for 366 days (I didn’t realize it was a leap year when I committed). I still manage to run about…
Jennifer Savage was scrambling to pull something together for dinner. Deep in the back of her fridge, she found a container of stuffed peppers. Very old stuffed peppers. She groaned, then did what millions of Americans do every day, without a second thought: She scraped the rotten food into the garbage. Sitting nearby, her daughter,…
Cara De Silva, a journalist and historian of food and culinary culture who in 1996 edited a groundbreaking collection of recipes amassed by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp, which became a surprise hit, died on Dec. 7 in Manhattan. She was 83. Her close friend and fellow food writer Fred Plotkin said that the…
Hello, Five Weeknight Dishes readers! I’m filling in for Emily today; she’ll be back at it next week, like many of us. This week has been a time to hibernate, braise and simmer, with wild weather across the country in addition to the usual interholiday lull. (We will not soon forget the couple in Williamsville,…