Chris Nordquist
For us cooks, the good news is that over the last 20 years or so good cookware has become widely available. Equipment that would have been difficult to find outside Europe when we were kids is now available in nearly any shopping mall, and mostly at accessible prices. The downside to this is that it’s […]
When we entertain, particularly on weekends, my partner David and I usually divide up the cooking dish by dish: one takes the soup, the other the meat, and so on. This works pretty well. Responsibilities are clear, nobody feels like the other’s sous-chef (or galley slave), and it’s relatively easy to work out the timing […]
I was lucky enough to have one of my favorite people in the world as my boss, not once, but twice. One day every Fall, at the end of some long meeting about a weighty legal matter, Alison would say something like, “Now, for something really important,” plop her dogeared tulip bulb catalogs on the […]
I love it when style, function, luxury and economy come together in one beautiful piece of gear. A good shaving brush is a perfect example of how this can happen. I’m not advocating going all retro with your shaving kit. The safety razor is a modern miracle of performance and thrift, and traditional straight razors […]
A few months ago, I was sitting across the table from my friend Jon at a cozy (that is, rather dimly lit) restaurant in the West Village, squinting at a menu I held inches from my eyes. Jon whipped out a pair of chic horn-rimmed reading glasses and carried on without effort. When I complemented […]
Last weekend we got the happy news that our good friends’ first child had been born, a healthy baby boy. Of course, I had been dispensing unsolicited advice for months. I remember one evening in particular. Between cocktails and dinner we had taken the couple to a baby superstore in Manhattan with the aim of […]
