The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to stop it have turned every restaurant in New York City into a ghost kitchen. After the single most disruptive week in restaurant history, the past seven days have seen a kind of eerie stability. With restrictions that allow ... More »
Last weekend, my kids requested cake. A two-tiered chocolate cake, specifically, with vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles — otherwise known in our house as “the Birthday Cake.” Everyone in my family gets a version of this cake on their birthday, that we slice ... More »
The swift and brutal way that the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the local food scene is well documented at this point, as restaurants across the Bay Area have laid off thousands of workers — in many cases almost immediately after the six-county shelte... More »
The dining room at chef Albert Di Meglio’s Brooklyn restaurant Barano might be empty, but business at Spirit Animal, his natural wine store next door, has never been better. “People have been buying cases,” says Di Meglio, who’s careful to let in just a few cu... More »
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left Canada to set up their new home in California, according to reports. Harry and Meghan, with their 10-month-old son Archie, are understood to be living in lockdown close to Hollywood in accordance with the state's corona... More »
The US now leads the world in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. There are almost 86,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus in the US - roughly 16% of the world's total of 532,000 - according to Johns Hopkins University.This puts it ahead of China... More »
A supermarket has had to throw away $35,000 (£28,500) of groceries after a woman "deliberately" coughed on fresh food. Gerrity's Supermarket in Pennsylvania described the woman's actions as a "very twisted prank", and said it had no choice but to discard all o... More »