Lunch Break

Ralph Lauren’s Boozy Chocolate Brownies Are the Hit of the Hamptons

A shot of rum dresses up the beloved dessert, as made by his mother-in-law.

Photographer: Doug Young

Editor’s Note: As more people are working from home, Bloomberg Pursuits is running a weekly Lunch Break column that will highlight a notable recipe from new cookbooks and the hack that makes them genius.

The Hamptons in New York’s Long Island got a lot of attention this spring. It happens. This year though, the conversation was geared less toward rental prices and more towards the pandemic and how wealthy New Yorkers were escaping to “luxury coronavirus bunkers.”