Jack Cakebread, who with his wife, Dolores, turned a 22-acre cattle ranch in Rutherford, Calif., into one of Napa Valley’s leading wineries, along the way helping to propel the once-obscure region to global viticultural stardom, died on April 26 in Napa. He was 92. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Dennis,…
There’s a thin red line weaving through the egg sandwich at All Day Baby, a restaurant in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, and it’s at least one reason crowds come for brunch, despite the impossible parking. That alluring condiment? It’s strawberry jam, which runs down the shiny slide of American cheese melted over…
Of all the edible heralds of spring, rhubarb may be the rosiest — and the most sour. After a cold, gray Northeastern winter, piles of the lipstick-red stalks at the farmers’ market practically glow, tempting even ambivalent cooks to scoop them right up. So what, if in their natural state, the stalks are astringent enough…
Back when I lived alone, before I was married, I ate eggs for dinner several nights a week — usually scrambled, sometimes poached, always salted to the nines. It was among my happiest habits for one. That time is long gone, but the eggs remain: I eat them nearly every day in one form or another,…
Before the pandemic, the chef and artist Laila Gohar would throw a dinner party at her Manhattan apartment at least once a week — inviting artists, designers, writers, actors and others to gather at her table over food and drink. “My house has an open-door policy,” says Gohar. “I always think, ‘If you can have…
This month, she’s introducing her first major project under her own name. Gohar World is a line of home décor pieces created with her sister, the painter Nadia Gohar, 32. It’s something they’d discussed for years, but that didn’t quite start materializing until the pandemic, when Laila’s events-based work largely came to a standstill. Available…
In the ever-expanding multiverse, there is a version of me smashing away at a keyboard with her feet, doling out dos and don’ts to the masses as that world’s Dear Abby. But here in our reality, I’m Tanya, an editor at New York Times Cooking and Tejal’s editor on The Veggie. And for better or…
PAICINES, Calif. — This is a story about livestock and vegetation, microorganisms and tilling, ecosystems and compost, water and climate change, which, in 2022, means it’s very much about wine. This dusty town in San Benito County, about an hour by car southeast of Santa Cruz, is the site of Paicines Ranch, an experiment in…
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In the summer of 2018, while on holiday in Cornwall, in the southwest of England, Frieda Gormley and Javvy M. Royle, the married founders of the British interiors brand House of Hackney, happened upon Trematon Castle, whose gardens were open to the public for the season. Stepping onto the nine-acre estate of the Norman motte…