Skip the tablecloth, or even the place mats. These new linen runners, nearly 8-feet long (90 inches) and 16-inches wide, will smarten your holiday table the way a great belt or tie might enhance your outfit. They come in autumnal tones — “merlot” and “curry” — with contrasting edging, but if your tastes are more…
I got my first baking job through a friend of a friend of a friend and lost it a month or so later. I had no experience as a baker, no training, but I got lucky: The restaurant, the long-gone Soho Charcuterie, needed an extra pair of hands when my name came up. I was…
Shooting a Terrence Malick movie is never easy. Days are long. The director’s scripts can be mere suggestions. So by the time the Swedish musician and actress Lykke Li wrapped her scenes opposite Ryan Gosling in Malick’s wistful 2017 record-industry romance “Song to Song,” she needed a vacation. “Everyone was like, ‘Oh, you should go…
Oh, the baking! For parties, it’s often best to make small bites to serve as hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Silpat, the French company that produces nonstick baking mats and molds, has just introduced a collection for baking diminutive muffins, loaves, madeleines and Bundts, along with regular-size muffins. They’re made from food-grade silicone mesh (no greasing…
For several generations, KellyBronze heritage turkeys have been bred in England and preferred by chefs like Jamie Oliver. In 2014, the company established a 130-acre farm in Crozet, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and it is the only commercial turkey farm that holds a Department of Agriculture license to dry-age and hand-pluck its…
Cashews fill the platter, dozens, maybe hundreds, curled like shrimp and dark from the pan, hot buttery mouthfuls strafed with salt and roasted red chile powder. Curry leaves gleam, half-buried, fried and ready to snap, tasting of musk and charred lime. This is a generous — and dangerous — start to dinner at Sagara, opened…
In a way, Anna Harrington was one of the lucky ones. When Pilotworks, a chain of incubator kitchens, suddenly closed last month, it left 175 small food producers in New York and elsewhere without professional kitchen space. Ms. Harrington, who makes savory and sweet cookies called the Rounds, was scheduled to begin working at Pilotworks…
Robin Standefer, who (with husband Stephen Alesch) founded the Manhattan interior design company Roman and Williams (their projects include New York City’s High Line Hotel and Upland restaurant), first encountered Victorian oyster plates as a 29-year-old consultant on Martin Scorsese’s 1993 film “The Age of Innocence.” Her job was locating Gilded Age table settings, and…
HONG KONG — Ever since Singapore separated from Malaysia and declared independence in 1965, the two neighbors have argued over who has stronger claims to aspects of their shared heritage. The rivalry extends to street food, and the latest sticking point is a plan by Singapore to ask Unesco to recognize the city state’s street…
