Back in 1882, when Olivieri, a bakery in Arzignano, Italy, near Vicenza in the Veneto region, started producing panettone you can be sure that it did not make an apricot and salted caramel flavor. But Nicola Olivieri, a sixth-generation baker in the baking family, is doing just that, along with other flavors, for his luxurious…
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Christmas traditions rendered in chocolate make for snackable treats and stocking stuffers. This year at La Maison du Chocolat, the holiday theme is the Christmas cracker, the party toy most popular in England that snaps open to reveal little goodies. A 10-inch oblong solid dark chocolate version is tied at each end and festively encrusted…
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Hospitals across California have continued to fill rapidly to dangerous levels as state and local officials try to dampen the explosive spread of the coronavirus in the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday. More than 10,000 Covid-19 patients are now hospitalized in the state, he said, 72 percent more than two weeks ago. The…
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In states that have their own apps, without the benefit of push notifications, the numbers are far lower: about 5 percent in New York, less than 3 percent in Alabama and about 1 percent in Wyoming. Virginia has had the most success, at nearly 10 percent, having devoted about $1.5 million to public awareness campaigns.…
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Move over macaron. These celebratory little Viennese cakes beg for bubbly alongside. They’re new from Heidi Riegler’s Vienna Cookie Company in Baldwin, N.Y. Called punschkrapferl or punch cakes, they’re the Austrian take on petits fours, with liquor-soaked cake sandwiching fillings of jam and chocolate, glazed on the outside and blinged with a bit of gold…
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People born with birth defects have a higher risk for cancer throughout life, researchers report. It has been generally known that major birth defects are associated with an increased risk for cancer in childhood. Now new research suggests that the risk persists, at a lower rate, into adulthood. Researchers used birth and health records from…
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“There’s nothing fashionable — ever — about being in a hospital,” said Linda Valentino, the vice president and chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai Health System. But as of Dec. 1, Mount Sinai’s soaring 11-story Guggenheim Pavilion (designed by I.M. Pei) on upper Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has been bedecked with large-scale portraits of 46…
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Brandon Maxwell is a fashion outsider. Kind of. Beyond an A-list clientele that boasts every style star from Michelle Obama to Sarah Paulson, the self-proclaimed homebody grew up working in his grandmother’s clothing shop and dutifully watching his mother put on lipstick while he “sat in awe as a young gay kid from Texas who…
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In editorials published in the spring on the Brookings website and in NextCity, a nonprofit news organization, Dr. Loh and her co-authors have argued that some of the very traits that can make cities more dangerous during a pandemic, like population density, can also make them more advantageous should a pandemic take hold. Populous urban…
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I threw together a batch that night, following the classic technique I use for beef shins: searing the beef in a pot and cooking down an aromatic base of onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger, scallions and dried chiles in the browned drippings. Then, I toast a bouquet of spices: a cinnamon stick, star anise, fennel and…
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