Surfacing From newly darkened storefronts, businesses offered a few last words of empathy, resolve and humor. By Antonio de Luca April 4, 2020 Image All along the empty streets of Manhattan, the messages reach out from the newly darkened storefronts. The notes express empathy, resolve, concern, even humor — a reflection of New York’s spirit.…
The first thing you see when you walk into Gallaghers Steakhouse, a 93-year-old restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, is steak. In the glass-paneled meat locker in the steakhouse’s front window are cut after cut of prime beef — a Fort Knox of meat, tagged and aging. When the restaurant closed indefinitely in mid-March in accordance with…
Hello, Five Weeknight Dishes readers. Of all the new kitchen responsibilities I currently have, cleaning ingredients with bleach solution and disinfectant is the hardest to wrap my mind around. We don’t have to worry about screen time, but we do have to worry about salad? All of this is very time-consuming and upsetting, and anything…
Even though spring has arrived, with daffodils popping up and trees in blossom, it’s still mostly cold and damp on the East Coast. It makes a person want to head for warmer climes. But, alas, there’s no travel in these blighted times. And the warmer spots I dream about are plagued with worry and grief…
LOS ANGELES — For over a decade, Jennifer Field Piette has put together boxes of local fruits, vegetables and various pantry staples from California — Koda Farms rice, pale blue pastured eggs, crusty loaves of sourdough — and delivered them to people’s doorsteps in Los Angeles. Three weeks ago, the customer base for her business,…
Is it cake time yet? These days, the answer is always yes. Cake is comforting in way that a tart or cookies are not. (Tarts are fancy. Cookies are playful. Cake is just cake.) This is especially true of loaf cakes, which you can convince yourself is just like bread. Slices of it fit in…
Judging by the pinking of my neighborhood in cherry and magnolia blossoms, Covid-19 can’t stop spring. And this means vegetables like ramps, green garlic and asparagus have been making their way into the markets, bringing a needed relief from those wintry pantry staples we’ve all been relying on. I may have to wait on a…
As we enter April, caring for those sick with Covid-19 and preventing others from becoming so remains the priority in New York City, as in the rest of the country. But how can we look out for others particularly affected by the crisis? Citywide closures of nonessential services have devastated the arts at every level:…
In the days before New Yorkers stayed home and people still touched their faces without dread, Matt Jozwiak was preparing to help. As a founder of ReThink, a nonprofit organization that uses excess food from grocery stores and restaurants to make free or low-cost meals for New Yorkers in need, Mr. Jozwiak knew he would…
Where I live in Manhattan, wine retailers appear to be experiencing a sales boom, even though many shops are in delivery- or pickup-only mode. While these are financially difficult times for many people, the desire for wine and spirits remains strong. People want to drink away the coronavirus blues, at least that’s part of it.…