Johan Halsberghe — a Belgian chef who started making fresh chocolate mousse for high-end markets to sell in little plastic cups a few years ago — has outgrown his Brooklyn kitchen and has moved his production to East Harlem. His new space includes a small dessert bar in the front, where he sells the chocolate…
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Nick Anderer and Chintan Pandya are among the chefs participating in the coming season at De Gustibus, the cooking school at Macy’s, which, for 40 years, has tapped top chefs for its classes. Mr. Anderer, formerly a star in Danny Meyer’s restaurant group, recently opened Anton’s, a tavernlike spot with some throwback touches. He leads…
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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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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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Orion was shining brightly in the dark sky above Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. But the constellation had some electric competition in the band of bright mast lights bobbing offshore — “like a bejeweled Orion’s belt,” observed a new acquaintance who introduced himself as Spoons, the pilot of one of those yachts. He and…
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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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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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The study aimed to show that Alzheimer’s disease could be stopped if treatment began before symptoms emerged. The participants were the best candidates that scientists could find: still healthy, but with a rare genetic mutation that guaranteed they would develop dementia. For five years, on average, the volunteers received monthly infusions or injections of one…
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New York Fashion Week dribbled into existence just after President Trump’s impeachment acquittal victory lap, and in the shadow of the Bernie-Buttigieg squabbles over Iowa. Not to mention the Oscars. It was not the optimum moment for the first fashion week of the third decade of the new century to start. It was too easy…
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MASON, Mich. — The Dart Container Corporation, by some measures, is an American success story. The family-owned business was co-founded in Michigan by a World War II veteran with a triple major in mathematics, engineering and metallurgy, and it developed products that, in no small way, helped fuel the modern economy. Dart makes, by the…
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