Beehive Cheese in Ogden, Utah, cleaned up at this year’s World Cheese Awards, held last month in Oviedo, Spain. There were 4,079 cheeses from 45 countries in the competition, including 17 from the United States. Beehive Cheese specializes in cutely named Cheddars with rinds often massaged with flavoring elements to subtle effect. It took home…
Open-fire cooking is what put the chef Francis Mallmann on the map. He has restaurants in his native Argentina, in Chile, France, Uruguay and also in Miami, and he runs lessons on his “seven fires” techniques for roasting and grilling. Now, for the first time, he will be giving more than six hours of online…
Childrens book? No so fast. “Yummy,” a bright, kaleidoscopic history of sweets by Victoria Grace Elliott, an artist and writer in Austin, Texas, delivers well-researched capsule histories of world events, back to ancient Egypt, as they pertain to ice cream, cake, pie, cookies and more. It explains the chemistry of leavening and the chilling action…
Hot Bread Kitchen, the well-established New York culinary incubator that has been the launching pad for scores of food entrepreneurs, often women and people of color, provides easy one-stop shopping for holiday baked goods and gifts, including new merchandise like branded sweatshirts and totes that benefit the nonprofit organization. Most can be shipped nationwide. Cornbread…
Forget the partridge. On the first day of Christmas your true love might give you a more tempting container of chocolate cake ice cream with brownie bites and fudge swirls. It’s the first of the dozen pints in the 12 Days of Ice Cream package from eCreamery in Omaha. Each pint is numbered. Flavors also…
When New Yorkers hunt for well-made chocolate, they go far beyond the tourist-clogged Hershey and M&M stores in Times Square to a wealth of purveyors in every borough. Carlos Cortés, the creative director of a 92-year-old family-owned chocolate company in Puerto Rico, hopes to create a new destination for chocolate enthusiasts in the Bronx. On…
Good morning. This is a perfect week to sketch out your plans for Christmas dinner if you celebrate that holiday, and perhaps to sketch out a plan for a blowout meal even if you don’t. The end of the year is upon us. It’s time to bid it farewell and hope for much joy and…
In the summer of 2020, out of the blue, my father told me of a friend of his who, after decades spent working in Milan as a photojournalist, decided to return to his roots and begin producing extra virgin olive oil at a family farm on the slopes of Mount Etna, an active volcano —…
AHMEDABAD, India — The raid came just after sunset. Plainclothes municipal workers swarmed into the busy neighborhood, seizing contraband. The dealers ran or watched helplessly as the authorities took their illicit goods. And with that, the government had conducted a successful crackdown on eggs. Not just the eggs themselves, though city officials had confiscated hundreds…
Mikio Shinagawa, who as a painter studying Buddhism in the 1980s opened the Japanese restaurant Omen, which became a downtown New York canteen for figures in the art and fashion worlds, died on Nov. 17 at a hospital in Kyoto. He was 66. His sister Mariko Shimizu said the cause was liver cancer. As fashionable…