Brushing Teeth: Is It Better Before Breakfast or After?
It’s a hotly debated question in dentistry.
It’s a hotly debated question in dentistry.
Not long before he died, my father, a doctor, announced that he would write a cookbook of Greek food. The news came as a shock. In England, where he’d spent most of his life, he had shown very little interest in cooking. In Greece, where he was born and where he returned to live much…
DetailsLife and everything after As Mr. Harvell embalmed the two bodies, massaging stiffness out of the joints and pushing the arterial fluid through the blood vessels, Ms. Velazquez and Xenia Ware, the owner of the funeral home, stood nearby and chatted about clients. One family, they said, had insisted on holding a funeral service in…
DetailsIn the decade since the stunning Moshe Safdie-designed Crystal Bridges Museum opened in Bentonville, Arkansas, founder Alice Walton has made it her mission to bring the art world to her home state. Specifically, the once sleepy town where Walton family patriarch Sam Walton founded Walmart. This fall, her niece-in-law, Olivia, has made the fashion world…
DetailsAvoiding waste by repurposing remnants is not new. But it is timely. Some luxury houses, including Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Marni and Coach have embraced this trend, though later than many environmental advocates would have liked. And labels including the upscale Stella McCartney and Marine Serre, as well as Re/Done, Zero Waste Daniel and the…
DetailsThere are pie-eaters and cake-eaters, often fixed in their tastes. But Ovenly, the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, bakery with branches elsewhere in the borough and in Manhattan, has struck a compromise: a cake inspired by pie. Rich six-inch brown sugar cake layers enclose a pie-like salted caramel-apple filling, the entire confection robed in cinnamon buttercream. Serving eight…
DetailsWhile tragedies such as the deaths of 151 people at a Halloween event in Seoul are rare, anyone attending a big gathering should keep these safety tips in mind, experts say.
What are you grateful for this year? Can you tell us about it in no more than 100 words? For Thanksgiving, The Times is inviting readers to share short, mighty tales of gratitude in the style of The Modern Love column’s Tiny Love Stories. Capture a big life moment or a smaller encounter: a personal…
DetailsLAS VEGAS — Carlos Padilla walked to his pickup truck with a shoulder bag full of campaign literature and an agenda for shaping the future of the country. It was 20 days before the midterm elections, and Mr. Padilla, a pastry chef, was on his way out of the headquarters of the Culinary Workers Union…
DetailsCourtesy of retailers If you’re anything like me, you would rather deal with the cold before covering your outfit with a fall jacket. Being a Southern girl living in the city, I’m still not used to grabbing a jacket in the fall. But alas, here we are. That said, when you have a fabulous bomber…
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