Duck eggs, larger than hen eggs and containing bigger, deep golden yolks and a larger proportion of protein-rich whites, are sold at some farmers’ markets. Now Utopihen Farms has started selling the duck eggs nationally, raised on a group of small family farms with a home base in New Holland, Pa. Their duck (and chicken)…
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Eric “E.T.” Tecosky, the Los Angeles bartender behind the line of Dirty Sue cocktail condiments, has come up with a clever new product: a Bloody Mary mix with no tomato juice. Anyone can add tomato juice; Mr. Tecosky’s focus is the spices needed, in addition to his company’s own olive juice, to make a great…
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Back when we had a share in a ski house at Mount Snow, Vt., we’d drive up with a cheesecake in the trunk of the car. It was frozen by the time we reached our destination and delicious to eat without thawing. The new blueberry ice cream cheesecake that Nicholas Larsen and Petrushka Bazin Larsen…
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Is it rushing things to recommend a cookbook based largely on alluring dishes that are prepped and assembled, but mostly uncooked or barely so? It’s spring after all and the incentive to prepare salads instead of stews is compelling. Vanessa Seder, the author of “Eat Cool,” is a chef and writer based in Portland, Maine,…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — This past summer in Australia had a dreamlike emotional dissonance, like pantomiming normalcy while the outside world remained overrun with illness and death. Everyone I know reads the news, speaks to loved ones in less-safe places and feels guilty that everything here is so very nice. We go to the beach, we…
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Opera is about sound bellowing from someone’s throat. Lip-syncing is the opposite. While opera lovers have long been known to silently join in with recordings in the privacy of their homes, can there be a true operatic performance based on mouthing along? Can a lip-syncer be an opera star? Absolutely, according to the composer Angélica…
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Adolescents and teenagers who experiment with marijuana and prescription drugs are more likely to get hooked on them than young people who try these drugs for the first time when they are college-aged or older, according to a new analysis of federal data. The research suggests that young people may be particularly vulnerable to the…
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For decades product plagiarism has been seen as the price of success in the fashion world: Make a hit bag or a viral dress and someone (sometimes many someones) will unabashedly rip it off, often almost overnight. So when a handbag licenser for Guess, Inc. decided to create a bag that looked an awful lot…
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Good morning. Eric Kim has a lovely story in The Times this week about using seaweed to add subtle umami to dishes, as in this creamy asparagus pasta recipe (above) that tastes a little bit like shrimp Alfredo even though it contains no seafood. (You could always add shrimp, though. That’d be excellent.) The shredded…
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Life can change in an instant, as I experienced when I first laid my eyes on a tall and bizarrely striking bird known as the greater adjutant. It was India in 2018, in the northeastern state of Assam. I’d ended up there partly because of absurd circumstances, which involved being filmed for a reality television…
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