On a recent Saturday night, diners in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, took their rightful places at the natural wine bars, pizza shops and taquerias across the neighborhood. Good luck finding a seat at the Yemeni coffee chain. Qahwah House, a Yemeni coffeehouse with 26 locations in nine states, was standing room only just after 8 p.m. College…
Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip. Noting…
Having convenient, well-organized places to store things can help make life at home feel a little more peaceful. That’s why so many architects and interior designers are almost obsessive about maximizing opportunities to eke out more storage space. “Creating bespoke, built-in storage is one of my favorite things,” said Linette Dai, an interior designer based…
The first time Benji, a 5-year-old Maltese mix, checked into the NH Collection New York Madison Avenue with her owner, something seemed a bit off: The metal food and water bowls just would not do. So the staff scrambled, offering the little dog 10 different options until she found a porcelain one she liked. And…
Butter yellow has been applied to a wide spread of items lately: cocktail dresses, jeans, jackets, hair clips, handbags and stand mixers. It has been slathered onto the walls of restaurants and home kitchens, and has oozed onto red carpets and the stages of major pop-music tours. Like the dairy product the color is named…
The star power of women’s sports is shining brighter than ever. Last year, the basketball sensation Caitlin Clark helped lift the Indiana Fever to an astonishing 265 percent increase in attendance over the previous season. The international phenom Ilona Maher and her teammates electrified crowds at the Paris Olympics when they secured the first U.S….
A forthcoming romance novel by the writer Sophie Lark was pulled by her publisher after drawing criticism from readers over dialogue that some found racist or that praised Elon Musk. The novel, “Sparrow and Vine,” was due out in April from Bloom Books as the first in a new romance series about a woman who…
Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people in what we today call Honduras made avocados a part of…
The Yellow Bittern, an 18-seat restaurant and bookstore near King’s Cross station, hardly looks like the most divisive lunch spot in London. It feels more like the farmhouse of a retired professor: Customers ring a bell to enter, then hang their coats on pegs by the door, while pots of Irish stew simmer in the…
Good morning. Lent began on Wednesday, the start of a commemoration of the 40 days Jesus spent in the Judean Desert, fasting and avoiding the temptations of Satan. It’s a period of prayer, abstention and almsgiving for many Christians, solemn preparation for the miracle of Easter. And, for many, it means avoiding meat on Fridays….
