I’ll start with the bad news: Nikita is out this week, so you’re stuck with me again. Now, the good news: Look around! This fall weather is gorgeous! October feels like the last hurrah before we all turn into recluses, hissing when we catch a rare glimpse of sunlight (… just me?). So I recently…
The Burdick Chocolates menagerie, known for its silk-tailed mice, now includes cats. For Halloween, the company has come up with alert dark chocolate felines with a cherry ganache filling and a clever curved cashew tail. They’re almost two inches long, come six to a box and are being sold for a limited time online and…
Headliner T-Bar Lease issues have caused the restaurateur Tony Fortuna’s popular Upper East Side cynosure to relocate after 27 years. It’s still on the Upper East Side, but just barely, closer to Bloomingdale’s than the Carlyle. It’s been installed with suitably luxurious touches in a three-story townhouse, allowing for a bar area with tables, a…
Autumn in Tuscany is the season of grapevines turned golden in the sun. It’s a time to cherish the fruits of the earth and the vine. Restaurants put up handwritten signs touting fresh porcini mushrooms, and small towns hold sagras, festivals celebrating local food and history. Living in Florence over the past few years, I’ve…
Located on a retail strip, across from a Comfort Suites, New Riff inspired a double-take as I approached. It’s a sleek building of glass, steel and stonework with a 60-foot-tall copper still enclosed in a glass tower. It shares a parking lot with Party Source, one of the largest liquor stores in the U.S., which…
“The defamation campaign has caused reputation and public image damage to Costco and Smithfield,” prosecutors wrote. Justin Marceau, a law professor at the University of Denver and author of the book “Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment,” described the prosecution as an unsubtle attempt to chill the growing movement of activists who use subterfuge…
It’s soup season, is it not? I’ve been feeling that keenly this week, so I’ve got five recipes for you that fit the mood. (And here are even more: 16 favorites from The New York Times Food staff.) The thing about soup is that it isn’t typically that fast to make. Even if you’re starting with quick-cooking…
Throughout baseball’s long history, fans at games have typically drunk beer while snacking on peanuts and hot dogs. Behind the scenes, things weren’t much different. The game’s athletes were often fueled by pizza, hot dogs and nachos in the clubhouse, and all-you-can-chew quantities of bubble gum and sunflower seeds in the dugout. But as the…
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Several times a week, Claudia Berroa simmers purple Peruvian corn with pineapple skins to make chicha morada for her restaurant, Claudy’s Kitchen, in Riverdale in the Bronx. As the cobs rise in the bubbling liquid, she thinks of her mother, who used to boil the beverage over a wood fire in Lima. “I wanted to…