Justine Pringle has stepped away from her Nunu Chocolates in Brooklyn and has a new venture, North South Confections. (A former partner will run Nunu.) Her first assortment has dark chocolate squares with caramelized fruit fillings and abstract Jackson Pollock-style tracings. There are six flavors packaged together: passion fruit, lime, citrusy tropical naranjilla, coconut, strawberry…
This season, OddFellows Ice Cream has concocted an assortment of uncommon holiday flavors. After lighting the Hanukkah candles on Dec. 10 (first night of the holiday), there’s latke ice cream to enjoy with smidgens of apple sauce and sour cream in the mix; coquito is based on a popular Puerto Rican Christmas drink; cherry cordial…
Monte’s Venetian Room, a restaurant that, in its heyday, attracted local politicians and celebrities like Frank Sinatra, is still in business in Gowanus, Brooklyn. These days, it’s just called Monte’s, though the Monte family is no longer involved. PJ Monte — a grandnephew of Nick Monte, who owned the restaurant with his brothers — is…
The chef and restaurateur Jonathan Benno has had it with brown-bag dinners, so he’s doing something about it. With Iman Kawa, a chef who runs Better Than Your Mother’s, which delivers elegant food from top chefs, Mr. Benno has created a truly fine meal for a solo indulgence. “It’s a way for us to keep…
ImageCredit…David Malosh for The New York Times Ali Slagle’s recipe fuses French onion soup with macaroni and cheese — two comfort foods in one. Added bonus: Caramelizing two pounds of onions can be therapeutic. Credit…Romulo Yanes for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Vivian Lui. Credit…Ryan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.…
For a baking project that will keep you from Election Day doomscrolling, look to a centuries-old tradition: election cake. The cake, which has become more obscure in recent years, saw an increase in Google searches beginning on Sunday morning. The recipe for Hartford election cake appeared in Amelia Simmons’s “American Cookery,” published in 1796 —…
Covid-19 has changed New York City’s restaurant culture more than any event since Prohibition. The most obvious effect, happening now and getting worse by the week but already dismal to contemplate, will be the death of hundreds and possibly thousands of small, independent businesses, each loss radiating out to employees, communities and suppliers many miles…
The first patented invention made in space was a coffee cup. In November 2008, Donald Pettit wanted to drink his tea and coffee from an open vessel. While aboard the I.S.S., he tore out a plastic divider from his Flight Data File and used the magic of fluid dynamics to create an open cup. Until…
Good morning. Samin Nosrat wrote a beautiful column for The New York Times Magazine about the joys of reading cookbooks, about using them as a stand-in for the travels we can’t really take during the pandemic, and about how difficult it can be sometimes to find big, authoritative reads about regions of the globe that…
ANAPA, Russia — Russia has no shortage of innovators, risk-takers and freethinking entrepreneurs. But their country is not built for them. Sooner or later, the state security apparatus makes its unwelcome appearance. Visit the velvety slopes dipping down to Russia’s verdant Black Sea coast, and you will see that this applies even to wine. Vladimir…