I'D WAGER THAT anyone who has had the classic (read: profoundly indulgent) mousse au chocolat at Le Voltaire, the chic Paris bistro steps away from the Pont Royal, will never forget it. Like Julia Child's equally rich if somewhat less dense ...
AT THE END OF 2005, I packed my bags for a New Year's trip to Cape Town with one of my closest childhood friends. "You'll have bobotie," my mom said. I asked her what that was. "It's like the national dish of South Africa," she said. "It ...
My husband, Ralph, and I have been spending time in the Hamptons, a string of beautiful beach towns on the far eastern end of New York's Long Island, since the 1970s. Over the years, we've been lucky enough to experience several different ...
After H.J. Heinz pared its forecasts on Thursday, Wall Street analysts lost their taste for the ketchup-maker. Though sales in emerging markets are growing at a nice clip, lagging U.S. operations remain a big challenge for Heinz (ticker: ...
SINGAPORE - To get to the new Forest on Singapore's Sentosa island, visitors trek along a tiled path, past saplings set out in tidy rows, and a waterfall gushing on a video screen. The air is filled with artificial floral fragrance, and the ...
IN THE WRONG HANDS, produce-driven cocktails can end up seeming like a flower bed in a glass. That's not the case with what's poured at Manresa, an unassuming Michelin two-star restaurant located in Los Gatos, an upscale California town at ...
Advocates of organic foods are sometimes viewed as being insufferably smug —witness the TV comedy "Portlandia"— and a new study won't exactly help them shake that image: People who were shown images of organic foods were less likely to ...
The idea of food as an art form has been knocking around ever since Marinetti and Fillìa's "Manifesto of Futurist Cooking" in 1930. The point seized on, and immediately rejected, by the Italian public concerned the banning of pasta because ...
For those high school and college students who won't spend the next few months backpacking around Asia, completing a research project in the Antarctic, or interning at their uncle's hedge fund, the summer may hold the following words: ...
The 20 top-paid CEOs have more than their multimillion-dollar pay packages in common: They're all men. A roundup of the highest-paid bosses from 2011 in an earlier Wall Street Journal article is a reminder that women are still a rarity in ...
Fallout from the weekend's line-heavy food festival in Brooklyn's Prospect Park continued Wednesday as the event organizers announced full refunds for attendees who paid $250 for VIP passes.
By Biman Mukherji and Debiprasad Nayak Consumers awoke this morning to a sharp rise in the price of gasoline. By next month, they may also be facing higher prices for two other everyday items – imported cooking oil and pulses – because of ...
In the two months since North Korea's announcement of a missile launch scuttled a U.S. plan to offer humanitarian aid, there are signs that Washington may come under pressure to reconsider.
NEW DELHI – India's food ministry plans to increase supplies of subsidized wheat and rice for state-run welfare programs by 10 million metric tons this fiscal year to trim burgeoning stocks and free up storage space before the new harvest, ...