Weekly Health Quiz: Medical Tests, Malaria and Teeth Whitening
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Colin Alevras, Inventive New York Chef and Restaurateur, Dies at 51
The intimacy of the First Street space, which they transformed into a wine bar, was lost, as was some of the quirkiness. International wines were added to the list. Ms. Alevras largely withdrew from the restaurant as the couple’s second child was born. But the food still drew people to the dining room. “Many New…
A Dinner With Drama, and a Special Soundtrack for Dessert
When Gabriel Hendifar, the artistic director of the New York-based design studio Apparatus, first set foot on the fourth floor of an unassuming Chelsea building in 2015, he knew he’d found his next headquarters. Behind a vaultlike copper door lay the high-ceilinged former studio of the painter Philip Taaffe; the space had previously been the…
Winter Squash Every Which Way
One of the first dishes I learned to make when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago was Minh Phan’s rice porridge with squash and brown butter. I’d fallen in love with it at her restaurant Porridge + Puffs, where she served the soft, comforting rice — somewhere between risotto and congee —…
Chica Morada, the Purple Drink That Has the Heart of Peruvians
Several times a week, Claudia Berroa simmers purple Peruvian corn with pineapple skins to make chicha morada for her restaurant, Claudy’s Kitchen, in Riverdale in the Bronx. As the cobs rise in the bubbling liquid, she thinks of her mother, who used to boil the beverage over a wood fire in Lima. “I wanted to…
Easy Chicken Thigh Recipes for a Better Dinner
For tired home cooks, the boneless, skinless chicken thigh can feel like a dinnertime paragon of protein. There are many reasons to love it: Unlike its more finicky cousin — the boneless, skinless chicken breast — the dark-meat thigh is able to retain its moisture even when blasted with high heat, so it’s difficult to…
The Secret to the Best Cauliflower Soup? High Heat and a Little Spice.
It’s hard for me to look a head of cauliflower in the florets and not immediately want to cut it up and throw it in the oven. When doused in oil and exposed to high heat, all the little crevices and fractals covering the surface — sometimes called curd because of its resemblance to cheese…
Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say
Over the past 50 years, medical advances have led to a more sophisticated understanding of the causes of Type 2 diabetes and to an abundance of new tools for managing it. But better treatments have done little to stem the rise of the disease. One in seven American adults has Type 2 diabetes now, up…
Easy and Cheap One-Pot Recipes
Maybe you have a fancy dishwasher with all the bells and whistles, or maybe the fancy dishwasher is you, but either way, fewer dishes to clean is always something to love. These cozy, one-pot weeknight dishes are some of our readers’ favorites for getting a complete meal on the table with minimal cleanup. “Luscious! This…
Breaking the Fast for Yom Kippur
Today is Yom Kippur, which, for many observing the holiday, means a day of fasting. I’ve fasted on and off over the years, so I know just how incredibly satisfying the traditional break-fast of bagels and lox tastes after all those quiet, contemplative, hungry hours, when the shofar blows and the sun finally sets. When…