It takes me forever to get anywhere in Paris. It’s not the traffic, or the strikes — which are almost as reliable as the church bells tolling the hours — or the weather, or the bumpy cobblestone streets. It’s the pastry shops: There are so many of them, and I can’t keep myself from lingering…
Good morning. Seventy-seven years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a Labor Day radio address. “In times of national emergency,” he told the nation, “one fact is brought home to us, clearly and decisively — the fact that all of our rights are interdependent.” It was three months before the United States entered the Second…
Good morning. This is it. This is the end of the session. Summer’s not going to be taking any more questions. Labor Day comes tomorrow, and the day that follows will be hard shoes and school buses and the long slog toward the fourth quarter, holidays stacked like cordwood along the way. Celebrate this day…
Advertisement Bites Kampai, the Peruvian chef Cecilia Zapata’s new restaurant in the Swiss city, celebrates Nikkei cuisine, the juncture of Peruvian and Japanese cuisines, to great effect. Image The tuna wasabi ceviche at Kampai in Geneva blends Japanese and Peruvian ingredients, the essence of Nikkei cuisine.CreditCreditCorinne Sporrer/Simple Plus By Sylvie Bigar Sept. 1, 2018 When…
The highly regarded Bay Area restaurant Manresa will reopen for business on Sept. 19, two months after a fire started outside the building and blazed through the kitchen. No one was injured in the July 16 fire; the restaurant, in Los Gatos, Calif., was closed and unoccupied. But the facade was damaged and the kitchen…
Advertisement Q&A Chemicals in some nightshade plants are potentially lethal and should be avoided for herbal uses — unless they’re involved in a fictional murder plot. Aug. 31, 2018 Image CreditVictoria Roberts Q. I read about something called Datura in an old mystery novel. Mixed with honey, it was used as a hypnotic drug to…
Brad Kintzer, 41, is the chief chocolate maker for Tcho Chocolate, in Berkeley, Calif. What drew you into the world of chocolate making? I’d been interested in plant life as an environmental studies major at the University of Vermont with a focus on botany. Experiencing New England winters for the first time convinced me I’d…
T Introduces: Jessi Reaves Looking at art can be tiring business, and resting spots in museums tend to be rare, crowded and generally uninviting. But at last year’s Whitney Biennial, where visitors of course knew not to touch the art, they came to an awkward consensus regarding the work of Jessi Reaves: They sat on…
“It’s hard not to be drawn to the authenticity of these projects,” he said. “There’s a real passion for products that are out of the grasp of large industrial companies.” But Mr. Cate acknowledges that modern craft bartenders have “asbestos palates, and they want to be shocked,” and are therefore inevitably drawn to spirits like…
Advertisement City Kitchen The markets are bursting now with fresh produce: This lightly dressed salad allows its flavors to shine through. Image This salad aims to prove that freshly picked vegetables need hardly any adornment.CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times Aug. 31, 2018 Because my summer dining habits rely heavily on fresh vegetables, I’m…