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…
The growing season has barely gotten underway, but it’s not too soon to extend the life of the harvest. Canning, pickling, drying and other methods of food preservation will be covered in a series of webinars by Penn State Extension. They start June 9 with an introduction to drying, followed by pressure canning (June 22),…
Say you’re invited to a wedding where the groom is from Indonesia or the bride is Romanian, and you’d like to toast them in their native languages. A new book, “Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts,” will tell you that “Bersulang!” or “Noroc!” are what you need to say as you raise your glass.…
Tiny delicacies are often most worth treasuring. Cowgirl Creamery — an organic cheese company in Petaluma, Calif., in Sonoma County — has been making a lovely cheese called Inverness. Not only is the cheese itself a mini, a cylinder about the size of a cannele pastry and about two ounces, it’s made in limited quantities,…
Good morning. Here’s Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Memorial Day, from an 1884 address he gave in Keene, N.H., “in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life.” It’s worth recalling before anyone heads out into a yard or park today to grill with friends, a…
With headlines like “fat is back” appearing so regularly in the news, it is perhaps wise to remember that healthy fats, such as the monounsaturated fats in extra virgin olive oil have never really “been away.” Olive oil has been at the heart of the traditional Mediterranean diet for thousands of years and evidence is…