Cicadas are popping up by the billions across the Eastern United States this season, and are subsequently finding their way to the dining tables of adventurous foodies. But people with a seafood allergy should avoid the crunchy insect, which are related to crustaceans, federal health officials warned on Wednesday. The advice from the Food and…
Good morning. How are you doing? I’ve been cooking out of the freezer lately, making my way through tubs of food prepared midwinter in fear of the outside world and the scary interactions it required: white borscht; clam chowder; chicken bog; one last tourtière. There’s been something lovely about not having to think about dinner.…
No one has ever complimented me on my decisiveness. It takes me forever to make a decision, and then, when I do, I second-guess it, myself and the universe. Given my constitutional aversion to choosing one of anything, when we had to move out of our house last fall for a renovation we committed to…
The nonprofit Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts has evolved since it was created by the food luminary in 1995 to provide grants to support culinary scholarship, training and education. Ms. Child died in 2004, and in 2015 the Foundation established the Julia Child Award to celebrate individuals who have had a…
Headliner Popular, Cantina & Pisco Bar, Louis The global hotelier Ian Schrager has completely made over the restaurants, entry and garden at his Public hotel on the Lower East Side, which was closed as a result of the pandemic. He opened it just four years ago with Jean-Georges Vongerichten as its marquee chef. Now he…
There is something deeply admirable about a menu that knows how to quit when it is ahead. When the choices have been edited to the essentials, you don’t need to ask the server, “What’s good here?” and the servers don’t need to lie and say, “Everything.” A few blocks from Haeundae Beach in Busan, South…
In 2016, Ms. Weaver, then a Los Angeles-based author and real estate investor, traveled to Lynchburg, Tenn., to research a potential book about Nearest Green, an expert distiller whose real name was Nathan. Mr. Green, while enslaved there, had mentored a young Jack Daniel. Ms. Weaver’s ambitions quickly grew; she persuaded Brown-Forman to formally acknowledge…
In the second episode of the television show “Kim’s Convenience,” there’s a moment that has always stuck with Diane Paik. Umma, the matriarch of the Kim family, arrives at the apartment of her estranged son, Jung, carrying containers of kimbap. It’s not a particularly pivotal scene, but it immediately brought Ms. Paik, 30, a senior…
With her plans for a vegan barbecue restaurant in Greenwich Village on hold since last year, Kerry Fitzmaurice pivoted and put her expertise in a bottle, introducing Pure Grit BBQ: The BBQ Kit, designed specifically for vegetables and plant-based proteins instead of the usual meats. It’s a mild, vinegar-based sauce, with a tomato and pepper…
The classic Boston shaker for cocktails consists of two metal cans, one larger than the other, that fit together so you can vigorously shake and mix the ingredients inside with ice. A new company, C&D Tools, which was started by two American diplomats, Kris Forrest and Rebecca Beardsley, has introduced a shaker made from American…