This spring, all the “fashion responsibility” was focused on online shopping. We are going to tell you how to choose the most ideal pair of shoes. Measure your foot right Sometimes we fail to order our size. Each brand has its own dimensions, and before buying shoes it is better to check it. In order…
If you have some idea about rings, you might have an idea of how the setting plays a part in other overall design – otherwise, this guide is a good place to start learning about the different ways a diamond engagement ring can be set. While gathering information for our today’s article, we asked professionals…
Smithfield Foods was the first company to warn in April that the coronavirus pandemic was pushing the United States “perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply.” Tyson Foods also sounded the alarm, saying that “millions of pounds of meat will disappear” from the nation’s supply chain as plants were being forced…
Would you like to own a set of six crystal Bar Hemingway martini glasses from the Ritz in Paris? At an auction from Sunday through Tuesday of tableware and other artifacts from the hotel, there are four lots of these, estimated at 400 to 600 euros (around $450 to $680). Or if your dining area…
An unusual brass wine coaster just landed in the gift shop at the Glass House, the Philip Johnson residence in New Canaan, Conn., that’s now a museum. It has a bulge in the middle to fit the punt, or depression, at the bottom of most wine bottles, making it look, ever so slightly, like the…
BLM Community Resources, on the website for the Museum of Food and Drink, lists scores of black-owned farms, restaurants, food resources in black communities and charities. Among them a flower farm that Walker Marsh developed on what was an empty lot in Baltimore, and a fund-raiser for the family of David McAtee, the barbecue chef…
Red Clay, a company in Charleston, S.C., specializes in hot sauces, and just a trace of their new honey will elevate chicken — preferably fried, though grilled or roasted will do — with a touch of mellowness that has subtle bite. There’s more upfront heat, along with a vegetal note, in the company’s Barrel Aged…
Picnicking is an easy socially distant gathering for lunch or dinner. Versa, a rooftop bar and restaurant atop the Renaissance New York Midtown hotel, has assembled picnic baskets that can be ordered for delivery on Saturdays or Sundays to eight Manhattan parks, including Bryant Park, the Sheep Meadow and the Mall in Central Park and…
Alan Batt, the food photographer known as Battman, traveled around the country interviewing and photographing black chefs for his latest volume, “Toques in Black.” The book profiles 101 chefs, including the legendary Leah Chase of New Orleans, who died last year. Among the others are Adrienne Cheatham of SundayBest pop-up dinners in Harlem, with uni…
The term “compound butter” doesn’t sound very delicious. If you weren’t already familiar with its creamy, herb-speckled joys, you might decide to give it a pass. But then you’d be missing out on one of the easiest, most versatile recipes in the whole pantry cooking repertoire. Because as long as you’ve got butter (vegan butter…