A Midwest Connection for Wagyu Beef

In 2014, several Angus cattle ranchers in Ohio started raising Wagyu for Sakura Wagyu Farms, a company formed to set standards for the cattle. The animals are bred from 100 percent Wagyu stock crossed with Angus, according to strict rules covering how they are grown (pastured, without hormones or antibiotics). Sakura’s own farms, also in…

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The Only Saucepan You Need

Cookware is among the stuff sold on Food52, the website for cooking and dining. Its new line, Five Two Essential Cookware, is designed with consumers’ feedback, and includes about the best saucepan you could want. Everything was considered: Made with three layers (aluminum sandwiched between stainless steel), it has well-balanced heft, a slightly rounded silhouette…

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Vegan Soups Ready to Reheat

Ben LeBlanc, whose satisfying soups are ladled out at Good Stock, his cafe in the West Village and Urbanspace Vanderbilt market stand, is now selling them online. They come frozen in plastic sleeves, each a single generous 16-ounce portion. All are vegetarian or vegan, in flavors like carrot-ginger, roasted mushroom, lentil and roasted tomato. There’s…

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An Ode to Manhattan’s Chinatown

The Chinatown Collection is a temporary pop-up store with items, selected by Care of Chan, a brand management agency, that pay homage to residents and businesses in the Manhattan neighborhood. T-shirts celebrating famous restaurants designed by the chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food and the artist Andrew Kuo, who has used Jing Fong as…

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Martin Shkreli Faces New Accusations Over High-Priced Drug

WASHINGTON — Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executive serving a seven-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, was accused on Monday of trying to maintain a monopoly over the lifesaving drug Daraprim through anticompetitive tactics. The Federal Trade Commission and the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, jointly sued Vyera Pharmaceuticals and the…

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