MIAMI — Outside Versailles Restaurant, on Calle Ocho, near Miami’s Little Havana, thousands of protesters have gathered in the last two weeks, waving red, white and blue flags — Cuban and American — in the pouring rain and the suffocating humidity. In front of the self-proclaimed “world’s most famous Cuban restaurant,” Cuban exiles and Cuban…
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The harvest of Maine’s farms, as presented in “The Maine Farm Table Cookbook,” is not dramatically different from that of many other states. (Consider a recipe for corn pancakes.) But then there’s Maine’s distinctive abundance of seafood and a trove of recipes: lush grilled halibut with spiced butter sauce and snow peas, and lobster rolls…
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Take the typical chocolate-covered coconut macaroon, a Passover treat, and cross it with a venerable Mounds bar and you have this hybrid, called Maccs. A New York entrepreneur, Michelle A. Goldberg, developed and refined them just before the pandemic hit. Robed in white, milk and dark Belgian chocolate, the bite-size pieces feature fillings like orange…
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The allure of a homemade fruit pie is real: Just imagine a bubbling double-crusted blueberry number cooling by a breezy window. But the prospect of rolling dough on a steamy day can send even confident cooks packing. To turn out stellar pies showcasing summer’s ripest fruit — without heating up the kitchen — you want…
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Olympia Provisions in Portland, Ore., a company that specializes in European-style charcuterie, has started spinning out a new salami collection, called Farmers Network, using meat from small family farms in Oregon. Their first release is Rosette d’Oregon, based on the classic dry French sausage called Rosette de Lyon and made with pasture-raised heritage pork, Willamette…
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To replenish the rolling hills and once thickly forested woods of the Appalachian region after mines scraped them bare before shutting down takes time, effort and money. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective is part of it. Kate Asquith, the director of programs for its parent organization, Appalachian Headwaters, a nonprofit founded in 2016 and dedicated to…
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Eat Offbeat, an organization that employs mainly refugee cooks for catering, is now offering a couple of picnic boxes: one with Syrian food and the other, vegan, with a mix of items from the Middle East and Asia. The kits, which come in a cooler bag, include ingredients for stuffing pita pockets with chicken or…
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Flip this compact plain wood carrier for food, drinks and utensils and it becomes a low table for serving or eating poolside, on a beach blanket or on a coverlet in the grass. The sides and legs fold up to turn it into a carrier, which is easily opened and locked to transition from accessory…
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About six years ago, Michael López-Alegría, then president of the association’s United States chapter, and Andrew Turnage, the group’s executive director, started discussing the idea of such pins. NASA has given pins to its astronauts since the earliest days of the space program “But none of the other agencies have anything like that,” Mr. López-Alegría…
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Christian VierigGetty Images After a year spent in sweatpants and sweatshorts, I’m finally interested in wearing hard pants again. But if I’m spending on denim, I want jeans that look as good five years from now as they do today. Enter: the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. In between fashion and home finds, Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale has…
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