A New Company Vying for Your Dinner Plate

Suppose you just want dinner, instead of making your own or opening a delivered collection of premeasured components. Enter Ipsa Provisions, a frozen food company from Micah Fredman, a chef who worked at several restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, and Joshua Brau, who was at Chipotle and Blue Apron. Among the company’s mostly uncommon offerings —…

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A Champagne Wish Comes True

Jen Pelka, an owner of the Riddler in the West Village, has long wanted to serve her own Champagne. She finally found a small grower-producer in France, and now, with her brother, Zach Pelka, she’s got a Champagne that’s exclusively hers. One requirement was that it had to be from a house run by women.…

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Coronavirus Updates: Languishing Industry in Mainland China, and an Evacuation in Hong Kong

Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical workers at a building in Hong Kong on Tuesday where two residents were infected with the coronavirus.Credit…Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times Two infections. Two different floors. Then a Hong Kong apartment building was evacuated. Hong Kong officials evacuated some residents of an apartment building after…

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Inside the 2020 Oscar Parties

LOS ANGELES — For those not invited to this year’s Academy Awards, the second-best option might have been the viewing party and dinner hosted by Vanity Fair. At 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, about 120 of Hollywood’s chosen began arriving at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills. Early guests included Sarah Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch,…

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