Seafood and Fish Valentine’s Day Dinner Ideas Everyone talks about breakfast in bed being so great, but does anyone ever actually do it? This year, be a doer: Surprise someone special — your partner, your kids, your mom — with breakfast in bed. Alison Roman’s eggs Benedict is a surefire winner, and a mimosa goes…
In looping handwriting, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe sketched out a method for making chicken flautas, from rolling up chicken in tortillas to cooking a creamy green chile-spiced sauce. After about 10 minutes in the oven, they’d be done, just the way she liked them. “Do you think other people eat as well as we do?”…
Phoebe Stonebraker arrived at James McCarthy’s Brooklyn apartment sweating profusely through a Bill Murray “Space Jam” T-shirt. “It was so hot in the city that day — over 100 degrees — and I rode my bike across Williamsburg to get there,” Ms. Stonebraker said of that sweltering day in August 2016. “I looked so nasty.”…
Welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. As fervently as I believe in the power of a well-stocked pantry, there’s almost never a weeknight when I already have every single ingredient I need for dinner. Keeping fresh herbs on hand is an eternal challenge, on par with keeping track of internet passwords. This week, even though I…
[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] Finding an apartment in New York is no easy feat, so when Phoebe Stonebraker saw an ad on Craigslist that read “3 Comedians Looking for A Roommate,” she found herself on the doorstep of…
Billy Porter is likely to sweep onto the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night, dazzling in a mélange of gilded feathers and a bouffant skirt, a pair of gold wings affixed to his head. It is all a bit extra, but he likes it that way, his tastes in tune with those of his stylist.…
When Renee Seman learned she had Stage 4 breast cancer in 2014, she set a goal for herself: to use her remaining time to run marathons. Six of them, in fact, in New York, Chicago, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo and London. Together, they constitute the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a collection of the most distinguished marathons…
Often, the goal when making drinks at home is to, well, drink at home. It’s not to try a new technique, buy an obscure bottle you’ll use only a quarter ounce of, or wait 20-plus minutes for a cocktail — that’s what bars are for. There is, however, one major lesson to be learned from…
I am wondering how the spermicides on condoms affect my vagina. Is there a condom that is more vagina friendly? — Dominique McGrady, Comox, Canada [Have a question about women’s health? Ask Dr. Gunter yourself.] Short Take Spermicide can have negative effects on the vagina, and — maybe surprisingly — it doesn’t increase how well…
