When Chef JJ Johnson released “The Simple Art of Rice” in the fall, his Instagram DMs were flooded with messages like, “Oh my God, you are really Puerto Rican.” The cookbook, spotlighting the grain’s versatility across cultures everywhere from Africa to the Middle East, opened a window into the James [...]

Ride the elevator to the 11th floor of Brooklyn’s trendy new hotel Penny and you’ll find a high-end restaurant serving more than just Instagrammable city views and inventive martinis. In a cozy plant-filled dining room, beaming with natural light and whimsical sculptures, elNico showcases the multicultural heritage of its team [...]

Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Jessa Williams always participated in sports, but surfing wasn’t on her radar in the midwestern city. Once she moved to L.A. for work and her son got hooked on the surfing during the pandemic, after some convincing, she finally gave it a try and eventually gained [...]

A few hours before his flight, Eric See sits in the backyard of his newly expanded Bedford Stuyvesant restaurant, Ursula, his phone lighting up with notifications every few minutes and his doberman Luka at his feet. The Brooklyn-based chef is leaving soon for New Mexico, where he’s picking up 1,500 [...]

A sea of fuschia and pastel girl boss suits eagerly filed into a warehouse venue in Brooklyn on an early Friday morning for a jam-packed agenda at the 2023 Vegan Women Summit (VWS). On May 19th, attendees fueled up on Impossible sausage stuffed breakfast burritos for a weekend-long marathon of [...]