Good morning. A very long time ago, the novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings came up with a great recipe for crab Newburg, based on the lobster version once served at Delmonico’s in New York. It’s a highlight of “Cross Creek Cookery,” her memoir of cooking life in backcountry Florida before World War II: a shockingly rich…
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It’s no secret that nonalcoholic cocktails are suddenly ubiquitous. Whereas until a few years ago, nondrinkers had to make do with cranberry-splashed club soda, now seemingly every noteworthy bar offers a phony Negroni or a margarita-inspired mocktail. “There are so many people who are nonimbibing, for whatever reason, but who still want to be a…
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When the chef Yann Nury, 39, was growing up in Ardèche, France, summer meant a frenzy for peak-season produce. “Melons, strawberries and peaches are my childhood,” says Nury, from the loft in New York’s SoHo neighborhood that serves as his invitation-only dining room, La Residence. “For two weeks, that was almost all we ate —…
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“A good cheetah print is hard to find.” Shane Jones delivered the pronouncement ruefully. So much could go wrong, he continued. The splotches might be too big or too small, the colors too bright or too dim, the spacing unnaturally symmetrical or too artistically wonky. This is especially true when it comes to specialty materials,…
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most hair-raising horror films ever to hit the big screen: “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.” Adapted from a popular 1946 novel, it tells the story of Jim and Muriel Blandings (Cary Grant and Myrna Loy), a couple climbing the walls in their cramped Manhattan…
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Midmorning on the Dolores River, you could feel how recently the water had been snow. “It’s probably about 48 degrees right now,” our guide Samy said, as she carefully angled the boat so the paddlers in front got wet and she stayed dry in the back. The white water was splashy and rolling without being…
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“I was so surprised that someone was so prepared to love me so much during that process,” she said. In May 2021, Ms. Woodfork and Ms. Ziegler went on vacation for 10 days in St. Lucia. “We really just enjoyed listening to Ella Fitzgerald and being in the pool all day and cooking together,” Ms.…
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Our first date started at a trendy wine bar drinking rosé. At our next bar, grinding to early 2000s throwbacks, he asked if I wanted to go home with him. Normally I would decline, making up some nice girl excuse. But the combination of wine, music and Los Angeles made me bolder. In New York,…
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