The rum-based airmail is the signature cocktail at Airmail, a new bar in Alton Food Hall in Miami Beach. The drink’s history links Miami and Cuba: It is thought to have been created around 1930 by Bacardi, when the company was still based in Cuba, to mark the start of airmail service to Miami. The…
Making bread is often considered to be therapeutic. For Kitty Tait, a teenager who overcame clinical depression by baking, it led to a successful bakery, the Orange Bakery in Watlington, England, near Oxford, and a book. At 14, Ms. Tait’s formerly sunny outlook was plunging into despair. In less than a year of baking with…
Micah Fredman, a chef, and Joshua Brau, who worked in food sustainability, believe in frozen food. Since early 2020, their company, Ipsa, has been selling ready-to-heat preparations like Moroccan chicken, beef and kimchi stew, and pozole verde, of particularly high quality. Now they have introduced pizza. David Kay, a former Gramercy Tavern cook who has…
LOS ANGELES — I don’t want to be that person who recommends the chicken. Especially not here, at a restaurant you’ll likely wait months or weeks to get into — a bit less, maybe, if you can maintain a healthy working relationship with Resy’s “notify” button. But all of those people who say you should…
“Daebak!” — pronounced DEH-bahk, often with a long, guttural emphasis on the first syllable — can be a noun, an adjective or an interjection that expresses approval when something is truly great. It’s the Korean word my mother blurted out when she recently tasted my doenjang jjigae, a soybean-paste stew that has taken me years…
Château de Manissy Tavel Cuvée des Lys 2020, 14 percent, $20 The dark, powerful rosés of Tavel in the Southern Rhône Valley are not everybody’s mouthful. They are more appropriate with a meal than as an aperitif by the water. But this bottle is an excellent example of a style of dark, potent rosé that…
For much of my life, I thought I didn’t like cucumbers. I liked sour pickles and Sichuan-style smashed cucumbers, but in most other settings — especially bad renditions of Greek salad — cucumbers struck me as watery, slippery filler, the honeydew of the savory salad world. (I stand by my dislike of honeydew.) Why would you dunk…
When Ms. St. Clair started Animal Farm in 1999, she knew she wanted to raise Jersey cows. With them came a seemingly endless river of milk that needed a purpose. “Everyone else in Vermont was doing cheese,” Ms. St. Clair said, “I saw a niche with butter.” Specifically, the kind of tangy, high-fat, marigold-colored butter…
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security. For Indonesia it was cooking oil. For India, wheat. And for Malaysia, chickens. The bans have a political logic: Leaders do not want to be blamed…
Sean Thackrey, an autodidactic polymath who, in between collecting antiquarian books, running a San Francisco art gallery and learning five languages, developed a cult following as one of California’s most intriguingly eccentric winemakers, died on May 31 in Walnut Creek, Calif. He was 79. His former wife and longtime partner, Susan Thackrey, said the death,…