Putting myself to the Wong Way test

In a recent conversation with chef Alan Wong of Alan Wong’s restaurant and The Pineapple Room, I learned that one of his teaching techniques is to have the kitchen staffs take a twice-yearly test on culinary matters. Throughout the year, Wong and senior staff...

All I want for Christmas . . .

All I want for Christmas .  . . is something I can never have. I want Grandma (Grandpa, too). Grandma as she was before Alzheimer’s sent her careening backward in age, staring for hours in apparent surprise at her outstretched hands, as a baby will do. She would...