A weighty but clever ice cream scoop from the MoMA Design Store made of shiny cast aluminum alloy is something of a trompe l’oeil piece designed by the firm Aruliden to look like an ice cream cone. It makes for a timely addition to the kitchen arsenal and might also please a Mother’s Day recipient.…
Laurie Woolever, a writer who was the assistant to the peripatetic writer and television personality Anthony Bourdain, has assembled an offbeat yet practical travel guide that the two of them started working on not long before he died in 2018. She soldiered on to assemble the new book, “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,” based on…
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner, so you might as well stock up on mezcal like everybody else. (Drizly, an e-commerce liquor retailer, reports that mezcal sales were up 600 percent last year.) Danny Mena, a chef who was notably at Hecho en Dumbo and who is now at La Loncheria in Bushwick,…
“Re-Enchanting the City,” an exhibition in Chelsea, highlights the visual record of the many vibrant local farms, community gardens and rooftop plantings around the city by the artist Elizabeth Downer Riker. About 10 years ago she started painting rooftop farms in Long Island City, Queens, and parts of Brooklyn, and then took her oils and…
Like a number of other fast food chains, Nathan’s Famous, known for its hot dogs, has added a vegan option. It entered a partnership with the company Meatless Farm to create a plant-based version of its hot dog. The key to it is Nathan’s proprietary spice blend. (Nathan Handwerker developed his hot dog, made famous…
In 2013, Cookpad began developing sites for and building large audiences in other parts of Asia, as well as Africa, South America and Europe, eventually establishing a global headquarters in Bristol, England. But its efforts in the United States — a mix of translating Japanese recipes into English, and trying to grow a user base…
The ingredient must be listed on labels starting in 2023. It may be a while before you see the effects of the FASTER Act. The law gives manufacturers 20 months to make sure any products they’re making that include sesame reflect that on packaging. Starting on January 1, 2023, if food contains sesame, you should…
The fresh coconut milk that made my grandmother’s chicken curry creamy and rich came from the fruit of the tall palms around her house in Sri Lanka. To make it, she first had to scrape out the bright white meat with a coconut grater. The rusty machine was screwed onto the side of a small…
Hi, guys. Margaux Laskey here filling in again for Em. How’s your week been? Lovely, I hope. A few weeks ago, Jessica Grose, a columnist for NYT Parenting, asked newsletter readers about their best pandemic buys, and I’m curious: What have been your favorite cooking-related purchases in the past year? For me, it’s a tie…
There are few culinary joys equal to biting into the still-warm crust of a puff pastry tart. The way those crisp yet airy layers shatter into crumbs always makes me giddy with wonder: How can butter be so light and feathery? How can air be this rich and crunchy? If you have an exacting nature,…