“The House of Gucci” is not exactly a food flick, so the panettone from Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in Beverly Hills, Calif., doesn’t figure in the plot. But Mr. Bottura’s executive chef, Mattia Agazzi, worked with a panettone master, Roy Schvartzapel, on two versions of the tall eggy dome of Christmas cake for the…
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Having burnished his culinary skills in the kitchens of Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Nobu Matsuhisa, the chef Chris Cheung returned to the food of Manhattan’s Chinatown, where he was born and raised, to create his casual East Wind Snack Shops in Brooklyn. In “Damn Good Chinese Food,” his first cookbook, Mr. Cheung is your guide to…
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Cricket’s Candy Creations, a new outlet for children’s creativity, experimentation and messing around, has opened in Hudson Square. Cricket Azima, a chef and entrepreneur who specializes in working with children and runs the Creative Kitchen, with online and in-person activities, and the Kids Food Festival, with events in various locations nationwide, has opened a spacious…
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Fine caviar is a year-round indulgence, but especially so at holiday time. At Hancock St. restaurant in the West Village, which opened earlier this year, John McDonald, the owner, and his chef, Ryan Schmidtberger, offer an uncommonly affordable caviar service. For $165 at dinner and brunch, a rock-bottom price even compared with what retailers are…
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The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries — about 50 in all, including at least 26 that are unique to it. But more does not necessarily mean worse: Mutations sometimes work together to make a virus more fearsome, but they may also…
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If the instructions are written with enough literary flourish, she said, they may be sufficiently creative to be copyrightable. When the nation’s copyright law was first codified in 1790, cooking was seen as a woman’s domestic responsibility rather than as a professional activity, Ms. Hawkins said. Written recipes are a relatively new invention; many cultures…
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Fellow lovers of fine things and sale-hunting sleuths will need no reminder that today is no ordinary Monday. Rather, it’s Cyber Monday, one of the best days of the year for unearthing discounts on fashion. The amount of deals to navigate today is vast (see our full list here), but one that’s especially worthy a…
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In recent years, it could often appear as if there were several Virgil Ablohs, all working at the same time. There were the multiple annual collections of Louis Vuitton, where he was the artistic director of men’s wear, and Off-White, his own label, which he’d founded while still in the orbit of Kanye West. There…
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Still, the antiviral pills raise the stakes of a missed diagnosis, said Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. “It’s not just knowing my status,” she said. “It’s now like, ‘Oh, this result could get me this really lifesaving medication.’” Antigen tests are generally less…
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This may be why decorous members of Congress refused to engage directly with the video. It bordered uncomfortably on some of our culture’s most disturbing, albeit ubiquitous, images; depictions of victimized or brutalized women that abound in slasher films, murder mysteries, the openings of countless TV police dramas and of course violent pornography, including cartoon…
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