In its simplest form, fan tuan is a slab of sticky rice, warm in the hand, longer than it is wide. It may be the size of a tailpipe, with a swirl of visible fillings ready to spill, or slender and sealed like a tomb, so no sign of what is buried within peeks out…
Having long shed its reputation as a backwater, Bordeaux is still often overlooked by travelers intent on the Paris-Provence circuit. Nestled in verdant wine country and on the edge of leading oyster-producing areas, this elegant city on the Garonne River melds a history as a wealthy shipping center with a more recent resurgence in arts…
The celebrity chef Mario Batali, who built a formidable restaurant empire before retreating amid accusations of sexual harassment by several women, is now facing a criminal assault charge that he groped and kissed a woman at a Boston restaurant in 2017. Mr. Batali, 58, has been charged with indecent assault and battery and is to…
Louis Osteen, a gregarious chef whose influential South Carolina restaurants helped elevate Southern cuisine to a new respectability in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Sunday at his home in Highlands, N.C. He was 77. His wife, Marlene Osteen, said the cause was liver cancer. In 1980, in the coastal vacation town of Pawleys Island,…
I know a guy — he collects unemployment even though he’s employed — who just had his teeth veneered bright white, with ceramic laminates. I ran into him recently, and he dropped to his knees to coo over how my puppy has grown. As he went to kiss her freckled nose, he flashed his crocodile…
The start of the summer season brings an expected crop of new restaurants to the Hamptons, but this year, there are more than ever, with an expanded list of chefs and restaurateurs branching out from home bases in Manhattan. Not all will have their tables set by Memorial Day. Here’s what to expect. Southampton Blu…
LONDON — The celebrity chef Jamie Oliver put his British restaurants into administration, a form of bankruptcy protection, on Tuesday, after the chain struggled with debt and an increasingly saturated market in recent years. All but three of Mr. Oliver’s 25 restaurants will close, and about 1,000 employees will lose their jobs, according to KPMG,…
Headliner Le Jardinier The two-story dining project in the new Norman Foster-designed tower from the developer Aby Rosen was originally meant to include Joël Robuchon restaurants, and Mr. Robuchon’s death last year has not derailed those plans. The umbrella organization for his restaurants, Invest Hospitality, is still running the project with Alain Verzeroli, who worked…
Hanon, a new udon shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was produced by the union of a Tokyo video-production company and a Japanese manufacturer of unusually thin condoms. The condoms became the subject of a series of advertisements on which the production company worked; in one of them, called “Acts of Love,” dancers in London re-enact, with…
What do chocolate and cement have in common? More than you might think. Chocolate is made by mixing liquid and finely ground cacao beans in a device that bears more than a passing resemblance to a cement mixer. In both cases, stirring tiny granules in a fluid results in a substance with very specific properties…