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The pine-clad slopes of Himachal Pradesh are a world away from the hubbub of Mumbai, where chef Prateek Sadhu established himself at the top of India’s culinary landscape. But the Kashmiri chef has always been most content outside the city, often venturing into the Himalayas to forage for dandelion greens to sample on his Masque restaurant menu. “Whether I was in Copenhagen or New York or Mumbai, the mountains were always home,” he says. “This is where I want to cook, this is where I want to live.” Since the end of November, he no longer moves for his ingredients: the passions of the Sadhu have taken root in the Naar, an ambitious 18-seat restaurant near the town of Kasauli, where he can go out to pick lemons or drive to shiitakes “the size of my head” from a nearby scientist-turned-mushroom farmer. He wants the menu to tell the story of the Himalayas, resulting in dishes like Kashmiri-inspired chicken liver skewers glazed with mustard and vinegar or braised lamb smoked over juniper from Ladakh. It is located between the terraces of the farm at Amaya — a 25-acre boutique hotel opening in 2022 — Naar offers set meals only, lasting about three hours, and is served in a warm, oak-and-teak open kitchen designed to resemble a traditional mountain house. restaurantnaar.com.
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A luxury train journey through Malaysia
After a four-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Eastern & Oriental Express train plans to resume service in February with two new seasonal routes between Singapore and Malaysia. From November to February, a three-day trip will travel west from Singapore to the city of Kuala Lumpur, the seaside village of Langkawi (where you can go snorkeling at Pulau Payar Marine Park) and the island of Penang. Then, from March to October, another three-day itinerary heads to the eastern side of the peninsula, stopping at Taman Negara National Park, home to Sumatran tigers, leopards and rhinos. The train’s 15 carriages have been redesigned and are now decorated with traditional Malaysian embroidery and silks. For dinner, chef André Chiang serves a menu that highlights the region’s diverse cultures with dishes such as laksa bouillabaisse, black bone-in chicken consommé and tea-smoked duck breast. Three-night trips on the Eastern & Oriental Express, a Belmond, Southeast Asia train start at $3,410 per person, belmond.com.
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Jewelery that evokes past glories
Designer Jesse Marlo Lazowski learned about the jewelry industry at an early age through her great-grandmother Toby Langerman. After surviving the Holocaust, Langerman immigrated to the United States where she eventually opened an antique jewelry business in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, selling Victorian, Art Deco, and Egyptian Revival pieces. Lazowski’s exposure to jewelry history and a 2012 mother-daughter trip to Rajasthan, India—which led her to design her first collection with artisans in Jaipur—laid the foundation for her line, Marlo Laz, which she debuted in 2014. The brand’s new 25-piece collection, Moonstruck, pays homage to Oliver Herford’s 1900 poem of the same name. Among the pieces is a one-of-a-kind champagne pearl and diamond necklace with an antique cameo that discovered by Lazowski’s great-grandmother 25 years ago. The collection also includes a Uranium rivière necklace, crafted with white diamonds in black gold, accompanied by matching earrings. Throughout the collection, Lazowski incorporates colored gemstones such as smoky topaz, deep red ruby, and prasiolite, a pale green quartz. Price on request, marlolaz.com.
While many chefs prize local meat, Anna Higham focuses on flour. “We’ll know when it was milled, who ground it, where the wheat comes from and how it’s grown,” Higham says of the wheat she’ll turn into soda bread and pies at Quince, her first solo bakery. The opening, scheduled for early February in London’s Islington neighborhood, follows a “year of big delays and surprises,” Higham says, but has been buoyed by London’s hospitality community. Higham, who has risen through the ranks of the city’s top restaurants, most recently baking at the River Café, has a reputation for supporting female chefs across the city. Karma came around: he raised the money to start the bakery in just 28 days. He hopes it will feel “like a country bakery,” he says, one you visit for everyday bread, not just for the pretty, camera-loving patisserie. The loaves he developed during an autumn spent at the restaurant and the Landrace Mill in Somerset (which will supply Quince with these pedigree bags of flour) should help. Brown butter yeast rolls, bread with tomato preserves and whole grain mix will be regular menu items. But fans of the chewy brown butter cakes she created while running Lyle’s Pastry Kitchen, or her variations on River Café’s seasonal sorbets, can also stop by for sweeter offerings. As in Higham’s first book, ‘The Last Bite’ (2022), the fruits will shine. “I’m really excited to swap local fruit for bread,” says Higham, who is preparing to fill quince custard tarts supplied by Londoners with fruit trees in their communal gardens. quincebakery.co.uk.
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Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu turns her work into wallpapers
For centuries, women of the Ndebele tribe in South Africa’s Mpumalanga region, east of Johannesburg, have painted the facades of their houses with colorful geometric patterns delineated by strict black lines, usually using chicken feathers as brushes. On a 2017 trip to seek out these painted houses, Lisbon-based and Rajasthan-based art director Alexandra de Cadaval met Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu. The two women kept in touch over the years and eventually decided to collaborate on a series of 10 tapestries featuring Mahlangu’s designs. It took three years to find the right weavers and complete the collection (there are 20 editions of each piece) but, since December, they are on show at the Galerie du Passage in Paris. “We chose the Indian dhurrie technique because it is also a traditional heritage practice,” de Cadaval explains. “And they’re incredibly precise, so they could make those black lines perfect.” The wallpapers are available and available for purchase until January 20th, alexandracadaval.com.