As a little girl in Phnom Penh in the early 1990s, Rotanak Ros would sell fresh vegetables with her mother. Cambodia was emerging from years of colonial rule, civil war and genocide, and life in its capital city was booming. Her mother, busy at the market, didn’t cook every day. But Ms. Ros fondly remembers…
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A lot of Spanish food sold in the city appears in dainty servings that are called tapas, even when a Spaniard might not recognize them as such. New Yorkified tapas are not what you eat at Ernesto’s, a year-old Lower East Side restaurant where the cooking is under the sway of Basque cuisine. A few…
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Courtesy of the Designer; Getty; Imaxtree; Lisa Aiken, the fashion and buying director of Moda Operandi, is reminiscing about the party that followed the Jacquemus resort 2020 show—the highly Instagrammable one, set in the lavender fields of Provence during the golden hour. “So many of the attendees were in dresses that were sheer or had…
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Back in early 2019, Missy Steak started hosting Drag Trivia, a twice-monthly event in the Boston area featuring performances by her fellow drag queens. Between acts, Missy would pose questions to the audience about pop culture and current events, gently teasing those who hadn’t been keeping up with the latest on, say, the General Motors…
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Good morning. Long ago, when I was working in the newsroom and going out to eat roughly a dozen times each week, I’d sometimes grab my pal Gilbert and walk briskly through the Theater District to a not-very-good restaurant with big plate-glass windows onto the street. We’d sit on stools at the bar and eat…
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The second show, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” will be held in 21 of the American period rooms and will center on 300 years of historic narratives both personal and political. Some are well-known, like the Battle of Versailles and names like Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass, but others are more obscure,…
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From left: GRACE DENIS, artist, 30; RAUL LOPEZ, creative director of Luar, 31; JAKE TYLER BRODSKY, executive chef of Tillies and Paradise Pizza at Palm Heights, 29; PIERRE SERRÃO, culinary entrepreneur and co-founder of Ghetto Gastro, 33; DEVON SCARPULLA, producer and project manager, 30; DAVID TORO, artist and co-founder of DIS and Torso, 40; SOLOMON…
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From left: LUCA GUADAGNINO, filmmaker, 49; ALESSIO BOLZONI, photographer, 41; GIUPPY D’AURA, writer and fashion history lecturer, 36; FERNANDA PÉREZ, makeup artist, 51; and FRIDA RUGGIERI, student, 13. Photographed at the Quintocanto Hotel & Spa in Palermo, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2020. Friends Who Summer Together In an unusual season, a director and some of…
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Gerardo Gonzalez came to cooking through birria — a meaty stew often piled into tacos and quesadillas — but the version that intrigued him, when he’d happened upon a recipe for it online, was meatless and instead called for dried hibiscus flowers. He was already familiar with the ingredient, known as flor de jamaica in…
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On my most recent visit to the Mesopotamian marshes, in March, I arrived at Sayeed Hitham’s for breakfast. The pandemic had kept me away for more than a year. The sun was just rising, the sky pink and golden. Hana, Hitham’s wife, stood smiling near the door to their reed house. “Tea is ready, bread…
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