When I pick up a knife, my husband is not nervous, not really. He keeps an eye out. He hovers. Finally, he can’t help himself: He reaches over and gently adjusts my guiding hand, making sure the fingers are curled properly and only the knuckles face the blade, so I won’t cut myself as I…
Hello from the final week of July! Summer is fully in swing — are you eating your daily ice cream? — and the requests keep coming. This week, I’m helping a reader who will be in town for the U.S. Open and needs recommendations for where to dine in Manhattan and on the way back…
Headliner Le Rock Every few decades, the reset button is pressed on the restaurants in Rockefeller Center. A big year was 1984, with the openings of the Sea Grill and American Festival Cafe by Restaurant Associates. This year promises to be notable as well, with Tishman Speyer, the company that owns and operates Rockefeller Center,…
The Choco Taco, a nut-and-chocolate-topped ice cream snack that for decades has been a top choice at the ice cream truck or convenience store freezer, is being discontinued, its creator confirmed this week after weeks of rumors about its impending demise. Klondike, which is owned by Unilever and makes the Choco Taco along with several…
On a steamy evening at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, Jaime Cabal had a line of customers at his Mister Softee ice cream truck. He blended milkshakes, topped bowls of vanilla soft-serve with strawberries and dipped cones into cherry and blue-raspberry shell. One boy no sooner finished his treat than he begged his parents…
For Amy Kasuga Folk, the Southold Town Historian in Long Island, it pays to know the difference between the Prohibition terms rumrunning and bootlegging. As she explains in her book “Rumrunning in Suffolk County,” rumrunning is about boats bringing verboten liquor to shore from ships moored at sea, where the bootleggers pick it up and…
The rollout of the Better Bagel has been gradual, from an online debut about a year ago to a full complement of flavors now. Next month, its products will be available nationwide at Whole Foods. The “better” part of the name has merit; we’ll get to that. But except that it’s round with sort of…
Diana Kennedy sank into a dimpled leather chair at the Hotel Emma in San Antonio, leaned over her glass of Scotch and told me that the real enemy of every writer was mediocrity. This was in 2019, when she was 96, and decades of deep culinary research had made her a leading authority on Mexican…
One night last June, I found myself eating chicken skewers on the second-story terrace of a downtown hotel, wondering about the fire code. I was sitting at a counter inside a makeshift hut banged together out of unfinished lumber and partly sheltered by a corrugated-metal roof. Skewered chicken parts, from such everyday cuts as wings…
After rising through the ranks at Cold Stone Creamery franchises in Michigan and Missouri, Dylan Lemay, 25, considered a franchise of his own. But on the way he discovered social media, and began posting ice cream videos to YouTube and TikTok. Now, with millions of followers across platforms in his pocket and a few backers,…