There’s a running gag about honeydew on the Netflix animated series “BoJack Horseman.” In a string of jabs, the hapless melon is trodden on as “garbage fruit,” cantaloupe’s “dumb friend.” Not without good reason. Who hasn’t bitten into a bland, watery cube of honeydew from the top of an airport fruit cup filled mostly with…
My fiancée and I are having a very small, vaccinated, Covid-conscientous wedding. She’s wearing a white dress, but I’d like to wear my dad’s custom waistcoat to the reception in his honor. It is pink and gold and features bumble bees. The problem is, when I pair it with a white button-down, I look like…
Why do we still have the ethnic aisle in American grocery stores? According to a recent article by Priya Krishna, a Food reporter, the issue is complicated. While to many shoppers, it may seem excluding and antiquated, to others, it is a helpful place to find familiar ingredients or discover new ones. We want to…
The cookbook author Betty Liu grew up in a California neighborhood with many Chinese bakeries but could not rely on them to satisfy her mooncake cravings. “Most of them only sold the classic molded Cantonese mooncake,” she said. Ms. Liu’s parents are from Shanghai, where mooncakes are flaky and spherical, stuffed with juicy pork. Cantonese…
What a week. How’s everyone doing out there? I’ve been thinking of those affected by Hurricane Ida (and everything else). And I hope you are doing OK. We had some flooding, lost some treasured things. But my family is safe, and we are grateful. And, though I might dream of curling up with a spoon,…
Shubnum Khan, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, is 36 and single. Given that she was expected to be married by 25, this is not quite the future she had imagined. And yet she loves her life, and the different type of domestic contentment she has found with her parents, who still make…
The reopening of New York has created a banquet of sights, smells, flavors, textures and sounds. The New York Times asked photographers to convey how the city is nourishing each of the senses. Produced by Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster Interviews by Raillan Brooks TASTE OK McCausland OK McCausland sought to capture taste. “There’s that…
One of the biggest compromises I had to make with my husband, Daniel, back when we were dating was about eggplant. I realized he hated it, so I avoided cooking it for our together meals for years. Whenever I was alone, though, I went all out on the eggplant front, stewing it down with olive…
Christian VierigGetty Images When it comes time to refresh your wardrobe for the season, it can be tough to tell which pieces are worth the investment. There’s nothing worse than splurging on an item that ends up spending most of its time in your closet. Sure, turning to the tried and true fashion classics is…
This week, two of the F.D.A.’s top vaccine regulators announced that they would be leaving the agency this fall, apparently partly because of frustration with the administration’s booster plan. Dr. Marion Gruber, who directs the agency’s vaccines office, and her deputy, Dr. Philip Krause, have told people there was not nearly enough data to justify…