Josh Jensen, who, after a single-minded quest in the 1970s to find the perfect site in California to grow the pinot noir grape, became the first producer of consistently excellent American pinot noir through his Calera Wine Company, inspiring a new generation of West Coast winemakers, died on Saturday at his home in San Francisco.…
Whenever one of my children reaches a milestone, I become hopelessly teary. Tears of joy? I don’t think so. My tears are for a moment so precious and fleeting that I fear it may be lost. It’s a confusing place in the sad-to-happy range that makes me strangely gloomy. The cream-soda-and-raspberry cupcakes came out of…
This Father’s Day, skip the whiskey stones, the razor subscriptions, the graphic tees, mugs and ties in favor of a gift that won’t take up cabinet or closet space: a meal so delicious he won’t want to crack jokes between bites. Whether prepared with the help of the littlest assistants or the inevitable fatherly supervision…
Good morning. “If I could have only 10 Korean dishes for the rest of my life, these would be it.” Eric Kim wrote this week in the Food section of The Times. Eric’s a writer for the Food desk, an Eat columnist for The New York Times Magazine and a son of South Korean immigrants…
Do you remember the first time you drove or took a train toward the Catskills? Is there anything more magical? Just beyond this incredible, but at times overwhelming, metallic metropolis there are trees and rivers and rolling hills as far as the eye can see, which always surprises me, no matter how many times I…
Melba’s at Wollman Rink Through the end of the year, Melba Wilson, the Harlem chef and restaurateur, will be serving many of her specialties at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Her restaurant is in the Overlook, the second floor of the rink’s food concession, run by the Bronx-based catering company Great Performances. Last winter, Ms.…
Mashama Bailey of the Grey in Savannah, Ga., was named Outstanding Chef, and Owamni by the Sioux Chef in Minneapolis, owned by the chef Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson, was named Best New Restaurant at the James Beard Foundation awards on Monday night. The ceremony, hosted by Kwame Onwuachi, the foundation’s 2019 Rising Star Chef,…
Mel’s, a pizza place that opened in Chelsea in March, seems determined to show everybody a good time. Most pizza places accomplish this with pizza alone, but Mel’s doesn’t stop there. You pass from the front door into a dim tunnel, as if you were entering a nightclub. At the end of it, past the…
An excellent stand-in for sloe gin in that bright summer fizz is the Blackberry Gin from MF Libations. The wild blackberries come from Mischief Farm, in Rhinebeck, N.Y., the 100-acre property owned by the actors Jeffrey Dean Morgan, best known for his role as Negan on “The Walking Dead,” and Hilarie Burton Morgan, who portrayed…
The Fancy Food Show, an annual trade show held this week by the Specialty Food Association, covers less territory at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York than in prepandemic years. A total of 1,373 companies displayed foods, drinks and related items, down from about 2,400 in 2019, the last year the show…