Carefully tending a vat of stock used to account for a hefty chunk of the workload in fine-dining kitchens. Today, however, says the New York-based chef Yann Nury, “it’s a forgotten skill,” with many restaurants forced to rely on store-bought powder and cubes, owing to cost, time and space constraints. Nury, however, finds those alternatives … Read more
Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change America’s perception of Asian food by replacing menus of inexpensive noodle dishes and spring rolls with ones that married the best local ingredients with the food he grew up on, died on Monday in San … Read more
These booze-free beverages are easy to make and bound to delight. Published Jan. 22, 2025Updated Jan. 22, 2025 January is a month of fresh starts. Among the many resolutions — diets, goals, plans and promises — you may have committed to cutting back alcohol altogether, or just pausing for the month and observing Dry January. … Read more
Is it just me, or is it a bit chilly out there? All of my plans are getting canceled one by one, like dominoes, because it’s simply too cold to leave the house (to be clear, on nights like these you have my full permission to bail on outings and commit yourself to dinner on … Read more
Strange Delight for a Stranger We matched on Tinder in April 2020. Both quarantined alone, 2,500 miles and 25 years apart. She texts, “Do you want to see some pictures?” Pictures? Sure. Her suggestive selfies and dancing videos delight me for a month. Curiously, she never asks for anything in return. She writes, “Going back … Read more
This was the chockablock 400-level section of the collection: the section for the Nigo-ologists and their Pharrell-ospher classmates. If you didn’t spend the early 2000s reading Hypebeast.com or brushing up on videos of Nigo’s clothing warehouse (this man owned Pee-wee Herman’s suit, folks!), at least some of it would be lost on you. As if … Read more
As you may know, my list of B.I.F., or Best Ingredients Forever, starts with anchovies and lemons, but it certainly doesn’t end there. Let’s have a look at some of the other ingredients in my heart and my cart, beginning with cabbage. I came late to cabbage. Other than sauerkraut on a hot dog or … Read more
We have two grown children: a son, 39, and a daughter, 36. They are both doing well, but our son has a great deal more money than our daughter. He recently married and has a baby on the way — thanks, in part, to his wife’s having frozen some of her eggs when she was … Read more
In a new memoir out next week, the singer-songwriter Neko Case shares some painful childhood memories. In the studio with Anna Martin, Case is open and unapologetically angry as she describes being treated like “an unwanted child.” Both parents, she says, struggled with trauma and addiction. They often left her with no food and only … Read more
Snow hasn’t been the only noticeable element filling New York City streets this winter. Cheerful colors — the kinds often associated with spring or summer palettes — have been a component of many outfits that caught my eye over the past few weeks, a refreshing surprise in a season known for blacks and grays. Other … Read more