Clothes That Meet the Moment

Three thick gold lines were splashed on the floor of a cavernous warehouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yards where the Gabriela Hearst show was to take place. The two on the outside were slightly curved, to enclose the inner one. “Do you recognize the shape?” Ms. Hearst asked backstage before the show. She grinned, a…

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Recipes to Make on Autopilot

We’re halfway through September, and I’m already starting to feel the stress and hectic whoosh of fall. Unfinished tasks are piling up like fallen leaves — and let’s not even talk about my inbox; it’s a terrifying place (current unread email total: 2,429). There’s a kid to send off to school, lunches to pack, and…

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Braving the Winds on a Greek Isle

We drove long, winding roads lined with wild marjoram and sage and dried-out pom-poms of woody fleabane through which unfazed goats looked at us with yellow eyes. The wind-borne clouds cast sporadic, aquatic shadows over the gray road. The sea itself, far below, was so churned as to seem snowcapped. Close up, the wind silvered…

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Why Are We Obsessed With Jiggling Foods?

Nevertheless, as recorded in an archive of oral histories collected by the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, those seeking refuge in America were often mystified, even unnerved, by this supposed exemplar of the national cuisine. “Oh, it shivers,” one teenager from Ukraine, then suffering through a famine that may have claimed as many as…

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