Electric Lemon Opens in the Equinox Hotel

Headliner Electric Lemon A number of the restaurants at Hudson Yards have views of the river, but none offer the sweep of this new 24th-floor terraced dining room. It’s part of the flagship restaurant in the new Equinox Hotel. Despite its name, which seems to nod to psychedelic, acid-dropping counterculture, it’s part of a clean-living…

The Latest Food Packaging Trends

Packaging can go through trends like fashion, driven by changes in customer preferences. It is also affected by changing government regulations. Here are a few of the latest trends in the packaging of food and drink. Minimalism Minimalism in packaging is a direct rejection of the over-packaging of a few years ago. The box or…

New Pints From Pennsylvania

Art Cream is a new line of ice creams from a company in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, with containers splashed with designs by employees from the company working with artists. Luciano Vitali Alves, who founded the company last year and began selling pints this summer, developed a love for ice cream early, in his mother’s shop. His…

A Leonard Cohen Cocktail

In addition to his multiple talents, it turns out that Leonard Cohen also knew how to mix a drink. He created a simple three-ingredient cocktail called the Red Needle back in 1975. It consisted of tequila, cranberry juice and lemon, not as sweet as a Cosmopolitan (which came along later) and served in a stem…

Flavored Salt Worthy of Your Pantry

Flavored salts, in my view, simply clutter the kitchen counter. If you have good sea salt and high-quality herbs or spices on hand, there’s no trick to creating your own. But there are exceptions, like this new one, new to our pantries, from Oaxaca, Mexico, which combines salt with pequín and arból chiles and dried,…