How Weight Training Burns Fat

Before and after that process, the researchers drew blood, biopsied tissues, centrifuged fluids and microscopically searched for vesicles and other molecular changes in the tissues. They noted plenty. Before their improvised weight training, the rodents’ leg muscles had teemed with a particular snippet of genetic material, known as miR-1, that modulates muscle growth. In normal,…

Keep It Simple (and Delicious)

Good morning. I haven’t been writing much about no-recipe recipes these past few weeks, probably because so many of us are cooking no-recipe recipes all the time now, using the bounty of the season for freestyle tomato sandwiches, big bowls of steamed clams, piles of corn. It’s hot and sticky where I stay, and sometimes…

From Cassi Namoda, a Delectable Anchovy Toast

During a four-week residency at Casa Balandra, located in Marratxí about a half-hour drive outside of Palma, Majorca, this spring, Cassi Namoda would take long walks, picking oranges and green almonds along the way. “I might have been trespassing,” she admits. The New York-based artist, whose colorful paintings typically depict scenes of postcolonial Mozambique, where…

The Taste of Summer, Now in Canned Form

But reports of the death of the boozy cocktail may be exaggerated. The family-run, California-based boutique aperitif company Haus, which also bottles its drinks rather than canning them, has grown rapidly since launching in 2019. Its range blends fruit wine with everything from star anise, cloves, lavender and citrus to cinnamon, strawberry and elderflower. Flavoring…