Suppose you just want dinner, instead of making your own or opening a delivered collection of premeasured components. Enter Ipsa Provisions, a frozen food company from Micah Fredman, a chef who worked at several restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, and Joshua Brau, who was at Chipotle and Blue Apron. Among the company’s mostly uncommon offerings —…
Jen Pelka, an owner of the Riddler in the West Village, has long wanted to serve her own Champagne. She finally found a small grower-producer in France, and now, with her brother, Zach Pelka, she’s got a Champagne that’s exclusively hers. One requirement was that it had to be from a house run by women.…
MASON, Mich. — The Dart Container Corporation, by some measures, is an American success story. The family-owned business was co-founded in Michigan by a World War II veteran with a triple major in mathematics, engineering and metallurgy, and it developed products that, in no small way, helped fuel the modern economy. Dart makes, by the…
I love to do things in the kitchen that take up a lot of time, tasks that feel special and maybe a little fussy. Things like soaking precious beans overnight, shucking pounds of fresh peas from their pod and gingerly trimming thorny raw artichokes to steam and eat with clarified butter. I also love convenience,…
Good morning. Valentine’s Day is Friday, a Hallmark holiday for some, with cards and chocolates and roses of questionable provenance, dinners in candlelight, public displays of affection set to stun. If you’re celebrating, I hope you have your reservations made or your caviar order in. You don’t want to be scrambling around on Thursday or…
Climate change is not the only source of dire projections for the coming decade. Perhaps just as terrifying from both a health and an economic perspective is a predicted continued rise in obesity, including severe obesity, among American adults. A prestigious team of medical scientists has projected that by 2030, nearly one in two adults…
MCLAREN VALE, South Australia — The Cube rises from neatly tended rows of grapevines in the middle of the d’Arenberg winery like a meteorite from some faraway jagged dimension. Housing art galleries, a restaurant and a wine tasting room, the giant glass geometric structure is both impressive and confounding from the outside. That confusion only…
YAR-SALE, Russia — The tundra at dusk looks like the open ocean, waves of shades of blue, gray and white. Indigenous reindeer herders traverse this terrain, eking a nomadic living out of the barren land. The biting cold this time of year keeps their provisions perpetually frozen, but they sometimes lack the time — or…
Seafood and Fish Valentine’s Day Dinner Ideas Everyone talks about breakfast in bed being so great, but does anyone ever actually do it? This year, be a doer: Surprise someone special — your partner, your kids, your mom — with breakfast in bed. Alison Roman’s eggs Benedict is a surefire winner, and a mimosa goes…
In looping handwriting, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe sketched out a method for making chicken flautas, from rolling up chicken in tortillas to cooking a creamy green chile-spiced sauce. After about 10 minutes in the oven, they’d be done, just the way she liked them. “Do you think other people eat as well as we do?”…