A New Addition to the Cleaning Cohort

So you check food labels and avoid products with long lists of unpronounceable components. What about cleaning products? For Veles, a new spray-on surface cleaner, Amanda Weeks — an entrepreneur from Staten Island, with a background in marketing — turned back the clock to the 19th-century pantry, when vinegar and baking soda were the Fantastik…

Your New Favorite Fried Rice

Good morning. Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays, Bob Geldof wrote so many years ago, and the mournful sentiment echoes around the kombucha station at work to this day. People aren’t looking forward to cooking at the top of the week, to salmon in parchment or a layered vegetable torte. They want simplicity, ease,…