Amplifying Black voices involves more than just collectively heralding it in the streets. Indeed, it is a great start, but to really stimulate continuing change and repeal systemic racism in myriad industries, those in positions of power and influence need to put their money where their mouths are. This is what Aurora James was requesting…
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Summers are special for African-Americans, a time to reunite with friends, dine alfresco and celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that remembers the day — June 19, 1865 — when enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, learned from Union soldiers that they were free, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Widely considered to be African-Americans’…
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Headliner Casa Dani The Spanish chef Dani García once had a presence in New York, at Manzanilla on Park Avenue South. It lasted a year. Now, Mr. García, whose restaurant, Dani García in Marbella, Spain, held three Michelin stars before it closed last year, is coming back to Manhattan. His latest effort, Casa Dani, will…
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Sarah Kunz of Seattle has been making family dinners for her five children for nearly 25 years. She figured out a formula early on and never deviated from it. “I make one meal and let everyone serve themselves, so every kid chooses which parts of dinner to eat or not.” Recently, Kunz made pasta with…
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Beatriz Williams, the best-selling author of historical novels including “The Golden Hour,” “Summer Wives” and “A Certain Age,” had not quite bargained for 11 years in Greenwich, Conn. But her husband, Sydney Williams, had grown up in Greenwich, and when the couple returned to America in 2004 after five years in London, it was a…
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Beatriz Williams, the best-selling author of historical novels including “The Golden Hour,” “Summer Wives” and “A Certain Age,” had not quite bargained for 11 years in Greenwich, Conn. But her husband, Sydney Williams, had grown up in Greenwich, and when the couple returned to America in 2004 after five years in London, it was a…
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DESIGNER D.I.Y. SERIES Image In this installment of our Designer D.I.Y. series, Mr. Snyder stitches print boxers to blown-out denim to produce a whole greater than the holes in its parts. June 9, 2020 At a time when everyone is isolated at home, nervous about spending money and without an occasion to dress up, what…
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Any home can feel claustrophobic during a pandemic. But those with young children may feel especially hemmed in, if their living space is covered with toys, games and school supplies. If that’s your reality, there is a way to hold back the deluge of clutter, or at least make cleanup easier at the end of…
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While it might feel as if the coronavirus crisis is over, it’s not. The virus is still out there. But some things have changed. To start, lockdowns are ending because cases are low or falling in some areas or because state leaders have decided to move ahead despite the risk. Testing has increased, giving us…
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Adam Rapoport, the editor in chief of Bon Appétit magazine, resigned on Monday, hours after a 2004 photo of him and his wife, Simone Shubuck, resurfaced on Twitter. In a statement on Instagram, he said he would “reflect on the work that I need to do as a human being and to allow Bon Appétit…
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