LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be Jennifer Lopez’s day off. Cue visions of her lounging by her infinity pool in Bel-Air, friends hanging, tunes turned up. Instead, Lopez, the multihyphenate performer, producer and branding maven, held a half-dozen business meetings in her home here, from early morning until sundown, on ambitious ventures ranging…
Not everyone can afford to have a spacious home. Some people live in an area with limited space. Dining rooms are crucial as the entire family gathers in this area to eat and talk about what happened during the day. There needs to be enough space at home to accommodate everyone. Don’t worry if you…
Every spring, male deer undertake a unique biological ritual: sprouting and rapidly regrowing their massive, spiky antlers. A complex matrix of bone, living tissue and nerve endings, deer antlers can reach 50 inches long and weigh more than 20 pounds before they are shed in winter. Not only are the antlers useful in attracting mates…
Image Clockwise from top left: Fruit Bat Soup from Guam, Twinkies from the United States, a boiled duck egg with a partially developed fetus from the Philippines, Haggis from Scotland, baby mice from China and pork brains from the United States.CreditMathias Svold for The New York Times MALMO, Sweden — The idea that anything labeled…
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An online merchant for harder-to-find ingredients has just gotten off the ground. Snuk Foods, based in Industry City, Brooklyn, sells Afghan almonds, Spanish tinned seafood, Korean fig vinegar, Pakistani mango pickles and much more. Recipes and background information for the ingredients are also included on the website. Snuk Foods, snukfoods.com. Follow NYT Food on Twitter…
By ANNE ALEXANDER and ALEXANDRA EATON | Oct. 30, 2018 | 1:55 Melissa Clark likes to make this salad for Thanksgiving to balance the richness of the other dishes. (And her daughter never has to know there are anchovies in it.)
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Image Something wild: The artist and author Edward Gorey, in a photograph from the early 1970s, favored a raccoon coat for a time.CreditBill Cunningham/The New York Times Last month, the Order of the Good Death, a group of academics, artists and death professionals, held its annual Death Salon, which this year took place at Mount…
Headliner Hachibei Freshwater eel is basically all that’s served in an intimate townhouse dining room, up a flight of stairs from the street. Here, grilled eel is seared on both sides as it is brushed with a sauce developed in Kyushu, the island in southwestern Japan where it is a specialty. It comes on a…