“It’s not a cookbook,” the poet Jim Franks said about his new book, “Existential Bread.” To dispel any confusion, here’s what readers won’t find in its pages: photos of backlit loaves of bread or of disembodied hands measuring, dusting and kneading. There are no recipes. It’s about bread baking, but only insofar as bread baking…
By Ingrid K. Williams Photographs by Tony Cenicola Ingrid K. Williams, a regular contributor to the Travel section, lives in Brooklyn and often visits the Hudson Valley. April 10, 2025 For a weekend escape within a two-hour (or so) drive or train ride of New York City, the Hudson Valley is hard to beat. There…
For years, I’ve had no trouble finding distinctive, expressive wines that cost under $20 a bottle. (I share these selections in a seasonal 20 Under $20 article.) But this sweet spot is disappearing. Though President Trump announced a 90-day pause in enforcing retaliatory tariffs of 20 percent on all imports from the European Union along…
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Milan is among Italy’s largest and most influential cities: Founded in 590 B.C., it eventually became the capital of the Lombardy region. Yet for centuries, it was somewhat overlooked as a cultural hub; while Rome, Florence and Venice were widely viewed as Italy’s seats of intellectual and artistic production, Milan was seen mainly as a…
During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America — almost one-third — took place more than six weeks after childbirth, at a time when most new mothers think they are in the clear, researchers reported on Wednesday. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first to…
Maria Fraterrigo, a grandmother from the Bronx, was booked in seat 4A on a flight from San Juan to Kennedy International Airport on Saturday night. But when she got to the gate for her return flight to New York, she said, an agent for Frontier Airlines stopped her. Her companion, an African gray parrot named…
For years, the U.S. government has warned travelers they will soon need a Real ID to board domestic flights, only to keep postponing the deadline. But “soon” appears to be real this time. As of May 7, a standard driver’s license or state ID will no longer pass muster at airport security checkpoints, the Department…
Opening Darjeeling Kitchen & Café Tsering Dolkar Sherpa and her aunt, the chef Pupu Chhangi, are the owners of this new base camp for Tibetan and Himalayan food. They’re from the hill town of Darjeeling, one of India’s most renowned tea-producing areas. In a simple room with walls washed in gold, they offer a halal…
On a recent Friday night at Paragon, a two-level dance club that sits under train tracks in Bushwick, Brooklyn, partygoers jerked their bodies to the thump of rave music. In the less roomy basement, silhouettes swayed as the flashes of blue from the ceiling’s grid of LED lights revealed young faces. It was “def a…