The Birria Lifestyle

Good morning. Tejal Rao went deep on the nation’s mania for birria this week, with a beautiful and thoughtful report about the dish’s history and current status as Instagram star. Three recipes accompany the article. The main one’s for the stew itself, birria de res, and there are two more that make use of it:…

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19 Easy Recipes for Valentine’s Day

Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with your partner, with your pod or by yourself, these recipes will help make the day special without a full day spent in the kitchen. These dishes don’t require tons of ingredients and most of them come together in under an hour. View our full collection of Valentine’s Day recipes.…

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House Hunting in Argentina: A Historic Flat in Central Buenos Aires

While transactions fell sharply in 2020, not every sector languished. While Buenos Aires’s lockdown, from March through November, curtailed property tours, it also shifted buyers’ interest from the city to roomier homes in gated communities in the northern suburbs, said Herman Faigenbaum, managing director with Cushman & Wakefield in Argentina. “That market has exploded,” he…

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Running Is a Total Body Affair

Much of this research came from the mind and laboratory of Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary anatomy at Harvard University and author of the new book “Exercised,” which delves into exercise and evolution. At first, most of his and other scientists’ work related to evolution and running centered on lower bodies, since legs…

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In Canada, Americans Are Missed, With Limits

At the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, American museum-goers from New York, Massachusetts and Vermont helped turn a pre-pandemic exhibition on Leonard Cohen, the gravelly-voiced Montreal-born balladeer, into a blockbuster. But the museum’s director, John Zeppetelli, said knowing friends and colleagues in the art world who had contracted the virus while attending art fairs last…

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