In 2011, Patrick Martins had the idea to promote the use of meat from male goats on dairy farms during the month of October. Mr. Martins, a co-founder of the online meat and poultry market Heritage Foods, called it Goatober. By 2016, he had teamed up with a goat meat company in England, and goat…
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Steve Jenkins, a former partner in the Fairway grocery chain who made his name selling fine cheeses and quality olive oils at reasonable prices, has emerged from a few years of retirement with his own olive oil and vinegar company, Olive Oil Jones. He imports his oils in barrels directly from producers in Italy, Portugal…
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In just a few years, burrata — a ball of mozzarella wrapped around creamy, shredded stracciatella cheese — has gone from being a rare import to a ubiquitous item in shops and restaurants. But there’s a burrata from Puglia, in southern Italy, with a delightful difference: The exterior is smoked. Unmold the small cup of…
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Fournos Theophilos, a new Greek market and cafe, had an unlikely beginning. It started as a partnership between George Korres, a pharmacist, and Nikolas Paschalakis, a computer expert, who wanted to showcase Greek food with a contemporary twist. They have hired two chefs originally from Greece, Yannis Tsiakos and Dionisis Liakopoulos, to accomplish that goal.…
DetailsTo find better ways to tackle cancer tumors that do not respond to traditional therapies, scientists are now experimenting with a modified bacterial strain that could target cancer cells without harming healthy ones. A phase I clinical trial reveals that this bacterial therapy shows promising effects. A new bacterial therapy may block cancer tumors’ growth…
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You know that famous saying about taking one thing off before you leave the house? I think of that often when I’m cooking. My general rule is that unless an ingredient truly adds something to the experience of eating the dish, it has to go. I’ve tested enough recipes in my day to know whether…
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The patient who died had B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that had relapsed several times after standard treatments, and was being treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The university declined to say when he was treated, to protect patient privacy. But the study he joined enrolled patients from August 2011 until September 2016. Once he…
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Good morning. There’s a little bite to the morning air these days, at least in the part of the world I call home. It calls for hot coffee below the predawn velvet sky, and something sturdy to eat before work and school and projects and appointments and sports and friends and theater and art keep…
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Advertisement Fashion Review Image Thom Browne, spring 2019.CreditCreditValerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times Oct. 1, 2018 PARIS — There was a beach inside the Tennis Club de Paris. There was sand, a red-, white- and blue-striped boardwalk, a pastel seersucker palm tree and a few tall white lifeguard chairs. But this wasn’t the Côte…
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NONE OF THAT WAS PLANNED when I woke up that morning, excited about my actual destination: an anomaly of a resort in San Luis Obispo called the Madonna Inn. On our way through on that family trip, my parents bought a book of postcards depicting the 110 themed rooms, and though we didn’t stay there,…
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