New Yorkers have talked about the $29 hot dog at Mischa more than any other new dish this year. It may be better known than Mischa itself, which opened in Midtown in April with an American theme that Alex Stupak, the chef and an owner, interprets freely and with a big pinch of Eastern Europe…
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Headliner Alligator Pear Though given a popular name for avocado, this New Orleans restaurant, bar and event space is not serving any for now. “I haven’t yet figured out how I want to prepare it, maybe blackened, but it is coming,” said Dominick Lee, the executive chef and a New Orleans native. But tempura alligator…
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Exploring the restaurants of Greenpoint’s Little Tokyo This is me resisting the urge to use the “a [BLANK] grows in Brooklyn” cliché. I’ll say, instead, that there’s something afoot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: a spate of Japanese restaurants and businesses that opened in the past few years in an industrial section of the neighborhood. I’m not…
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An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts pen pal merit badge. She, a Scottish boarding-school girl, required by a teacher to get a “pen friend.” Both age 10. I requested a French boy. Liz requested “anything but an American girl.” Clearly fate knew better. Our lives share striking similarities.…
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She’s rolling in the grass dressed in sunflower yellow, kissing a man about whom she’s passionately ambivalent (“Boyfriends and Girlfriends,” 1987). She’s strolling through the countryside in a fleecy blue sweater, having no fun at all (“The Green Ray,” 1986). She’s lounging on a beach in a red bikini and ivory bucket hat, about to…
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The fashion schedule is traveling at a breakneck pace, and the recent resort 2024 collections are no different. Several destination shows had the style set traipsing around the globe to take in the latest from brands that are bound to inspire a winter getaway sooner than later. If you’re keen to get your holiday plans…
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It started because Kelsey McKinney wanted to know where her sister was every single moment of the day. “I like to call her and she likes to call me and it was only practical to share our locations so that we would know whether or not now was a good time to call without asking,”…
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There are times when you don’t want to cook, and there are times when you can’t bear to cook — that extra tablespoon of desperation keeps you from walking into the kitchen and turning on the stove. I feel that most acutely at the height of the summer, when it’s just too hot to do much…
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Julie Halston knows her socialites. The stage and screen actress ticked off names including Nan Kempner, Judith Peabody, Muffie Potter Aston and Beth Rudin DeWoody while discussing her reprisal of Bitsy von Muffling, a chirpy lady who lunches, in “And Just Like That,” the “Sex and The City” reboot. “Let’s face facts: There will always…
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