Dale Pollekoff, 71, moved to Los Angeles after a long career in graphic design in Washington D.C. As a single woman with no children, she felt drawn to the city’s weather and the less conservative ideas of varied lifestyles. “I feel more like I can be me here,” she said. But soon after her move…
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A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. Earlier that day, a local woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when she got there, according to a police report on the case. Facebook called to warn the…
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A new set of kitchen utensils designed for children (but useful for adults) ramps up the fun, while producing rewards like a well-tossed salad, eggs properly beaten to scramble or a correct measure of flour for a perfect batch of cookies. The handles on the spatulas, spoons and whisk colorfully replicate vegetables, while making the…
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Imagine the world’s most glamorous 4-H fair crossed with Fashion Week, and you’ll have a sense of what Peru’s Alpaca Fiesta feels like. The event this past October in Arequipa, the country’s second-largest city, drew designers, farmers, and sustainability advocates from all over the world. The lure: the titular meme-friendly animal, whose fur (which is…
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For the dead of winter, “The Fat Kitchen” could not be more timely. It’s a guide to preparing and using animal fats, indulgently or sparingly, in all sorts of delectable ways. Not just any animal fats, though. The author, a food writer who lives in Vermont, insists on fats from pasture-raised creatures, preferably rendered at…
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I had always maintained that I’d be the kind of person who makes time for cooking, regardless of how busy I became. It is, after all, my job, my hobby, my creative outlet and how I connect with people. Fast forward to 2018, and it became painfully clear that while that was a nice thought…
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MALI STON, Croatia — “An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life,” M.F.K. Fisher observed in her classic book about them, “full of stress, passion and danger.” The oyster, in other words, fits right in with the beleaguered Balkans. In his 62 years in this tumultuous region, the life of Bode Sare has been at…
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Headliner Haenyeo The turnaround was barely a month: By the time Jenny Kwak knew she wouldn’t renew the lease on Do Hwa, her 20-year-old Korean restaurant in the West Village, she and her husband, Terrence Segura, already had a new place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the works. The restaurant, named for the intrepid women…
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You might groan at the name, A Midwinter Night’s Dram, but pour some anyway. This rye whiskey is strong and spicy on the palate, with aromas of cinnamon, cloves, honey and vanilla. It’s made by High West, a distillery in Utah’s Park City ski country. To produce it, the company ages its blended Rendezvous Rye…
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Vietnamese coffee is one exception to my usual practice of not sweetening my coffee (the other is Turkish or Greek). In Vietnam, the typically dark pour-over brew is mellowed with sweetened condensed milk. Now Copper Cow Coffee — a California company started by Debbie Wei Mullin, who went back to Saigon, her mother’s hometown, to…
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