Headliner Casa Dani New York first met the Spanish chef Dani Garcia at Manzanilla on Park Avenue South. That was eight years ago. Since then, Dani Garcia, his restaurant in Marbella, Spain, picked up a third Michelin star (it’s now closed), and the chef formed his own company, Grupo Dani Garcia. Now, he has returned…
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“Eat every meal as if it were your last,” Nora Ephron once said, “because when the last one comes you probably won’t be hungry.” I’ve always appreciated the gallows humor of that remark, but its advice struck me as unwise. Every meal? I love you, Nora, but I’ve got school lunches to make in the…
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Restaurants began the year in darkness. Dining rooms in New York had been closed, again, by order of the governor. Is it any wonder that some of my strongest memories of the year in eating are takeout and delivery dishes? Or that, once restaurants were allowed to serve indoors again in February, the things that…
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Disclaimer: Even though I’ve spent the last decade writing about fashion, technology, and sustainability, it occurred to me earlier this year that I have zero firsthand experience designing clothes. Or making sustainable design decisions. Or utilizing technology for those purposes. To remedy this, I embarked on a journey to launch an experimental fashion brand utilizing…
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Bodysuit, $1,250, Celine by Hedi Slimane. Necklace, ring, Bulgari. Nathaniel Golberg What people might notice first about Quannah Chasinghorse is the Indigenous history she wears on her face. I do, too, because her screen—she’s joined from Paris, where she’s walking at Fashion Week—cuts off the top of her head. I see her narrow chin, her…
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Nancy Schwab loves Christmas. Really, really loves Christmas. “I have Santa collections from when I was little,” said Ms. Schwab, 62, a retired school administrator. Thus, it became a source of annual annoyance that decking the house with boughs of holly (and twinkly lights) was frowned upon in her Joliet, Ill., neighborhood until Thanksgiving had…
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A few years ago, after learning she had high blood pressure, Shannon Connell-Robichaud asked her doctor to switch her birth-control pill prescription. She had read that the pill she had been prescribed put people around her age with that condition at high risk of a stroke. The doctor agreed, she said — but only after…
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Seek and you shall find In any other context, it would have been unremarkable: On Sunday, Nov. 28, a San Francisco resident who had been feeling mildly ill took a Covid test. The next day, it came back positive. What set off alarm bells, however, was that the resident had recently returned from South Africa,…
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When Viridiana Padilla Johnson was a little girl in the Mexican state of Sonora, Christmastime celebrations radiated out from her grandmother’s kitchen. That’s where she’d watch her prepare buñuelos, learning how to make the disks herself along the way. An accompanying piloncillo syrup, made with unrefined sugar, perfumed the space with the warm smells of…
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