How Vision Loss Can Affect the Brain
A growing body of evidence suggests that when older people’s brains have to work harder to see, declines in language, memory, attention and more could follow.
A Stew for Labor Day
Good morning. Happy Labor Day. Because of the coronavirus there’ll be no West Indian American Day Parade this year along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, but if you’d like to get into the spirit of past and future holidays, you might try this luscious Jamaican oxtail stew (above) that I learned to make a decade ago…
The Ethereal Taste of Flowers
PART OF THE confusion is a matter of terms. The ancients grappled with how to categorize the sensations that come to us through food. As the classicist John Paulas outlines in his 2017 essay “Tastes of the Extraordinary: Flavor Lists in Imperial Rome,” the Greek philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias, around the turn of the third…
A New Way to Look at Furniture in Milan
It has been 60 years since Salone del Mobile Milano, the premier annual exhibition of furniture, was founded, and two and a half years since crowds last gathered in Milan’s exhibition halls to admire the relentless creativity of international designers and manufacturers. A spirit of innovation continues to drive the fair, not least in the…
A Personal Pilgrimage to a Downed Warplane in Papua New Guinea
Early in the afternoon of April 5, 1944, an A-20 Havoc, wrestling with apparent engine trouble after an attack on the Japanese stronghold of Hollandia (present-day Jayapura, Indonesia), withdrew from formation and fell from the sky. It vanished into a thick jungle canopy, exploding on impact. On board were Second Lt. Thomas Freeman, 23, and…
Shopping for Room Dividers
A folding screen is useful for dividing space, but it can do so much more. “It really is a great way to bring in scale, texture, artistry or a decorative moment,” said Thom Filicia, the New York-based interior designer. Screens, he noted, are essentially pop-up architecture. Mr. Filicia uses them to separate various seating areas…