Aditi Dugar, the owner of the restaurant Masque, celebrated the festival of lights with a modern Indian tasting menu prepared by the chef Varun Totlani.

Cathleen O’Neil and Feisal Lagos, two friends who met in the New York events industry, have started a vibrant, collaborative meal series of their own.

A group of bakers are taking nonconformist cake decorating trends to new heights, creating otherworldly confections bristling with surreal protrusions.