4 Black Women Who Mixed Fine Dining, Fashion and Art in New York
The New York Times
The dining rooms created by these restaurateurs weren’t just eye-catching; they were stages for their owners’ personal stories.
These four restaurants were synonymous with their owners, all serving their takes on soul or Southern food. Before they arrived, a craving for soul food meant heading uptown to Harlem for takeout containers or sitting down at Sylvia’s, opened by Sylvia Woods in 1962 near the famed Apollo Theater.
These newer places continued the story, bringing worldly, upscale takes on Southern food downtown. Each space was a view into a world curated and inspired by its creator. And each, in its time, offered some of the most coveted seats in the city; their legacy can still be seen in the number of restaurants today highlighting Black stories. Budding entrepreneurs like Melba Wilson and Marcus Samuelsson were inspired to build their own restaurant empires by seeing these pioneers build theirs.
Below, friends of these trailblazing women and guests of their restaurants share memories of what the chefs and their restaurants meant to them.
Few restaurants elicit such nostalgic sighs as Jezebel, a busy and ornate Southern restaurant in the theater district that Alberta Wright opened in 1983.
David Tanis wraps the weeknight staple in puff pastry for something that’s not just simple and juicy — it’s simply showstopping.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.
Researchers observed a number of surprising behaviors by the ivory-sporting whales during an expedition with drones in the Canadian High Arctic.
Ha’s Snack Bar plans to scale up in size and ambition, but it’s already turning heads with its freewheeling takes on French and Vietnamese flavors.
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.
The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
Pete Wells joins the pack of dogs and humans trying to sniff out these culinary treasures.
Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them.
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
There’s a reason this easy 1930s recipe, topped with caramel and coconut, has been around for so long.
Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.
People interpret a dog’s emotions based on its situation and have “a big blind spot” for the actual animal, a new study found.