It’s always a thrill to feast on cushiony wild morels and chanterelles, frilly hen of the woods, or black smudges of huitlacoche. But I grew up on those cultivated button mushrooms in the plastic-wrapped pints, and I like cooking with them, too! Even buttons carry the flavor of deep earth, of balmy decay, while somehow…
Charlotte Gainsbourg and denim have history. “I’ve always been quite a fanatic in regards to denim,” Gainsbourg tells BAZAAR.com. The award-winning musician, actor, and overall style icon can trace her love of good jeans back to her childhood, absorbing her iconic parents’ (Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg) known appreciation for the material. Yet after years…
Which classics did The New York Times Book Review pan? Which well-known authors sent letters to Book Review editors to register their grievances? And how much do you know about the Book Review’s storied history? On Oct. 25, join us in a virtual Times subscriber event to find out. This event, part of the Book…
Over a 15-month period of the pandemic, more than 120,000 children in the United States had a parent or caregiver die from Covid-19, a loss that more severely affected racial minorities, according to a modeling study published in the medical journal Pediatrics on Thursday. The study estimated that for every four Covid-19 deaths between April…
WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech asked federal regulators on Thursday to authorize emergency use of their coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, a move that could help protect more than 28 million people in the United States. The companies say they are submitting data supporting the change to the Food and Drug Administration.…
Twenty-five years ago, I ended a long relationship. Eventually, my ex and I became dear platonic friends. Over time, I married a wonderful man, and he married, divorced and began a new relationship. We used to socialize as couples and include each other in major life events. But his new wife, who seems delightful, appears…
PARIS — At a ceremony on Wednesday, the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel joined one of the loftiest cultural institutions of the French state, the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and became immortal. “Immortals,” as the academy’s inductees are called, usually wear a classic interpretation of the green-embroidered uniform first required under Napoleon. Othoniel decked himself out in Dior.…
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If 2020 was the year travel stopped, 2021 was when it lurched erratically and veered sideways, like a teenager behind the wheel of a bumper car. Summer travel was particularly chaotic, as travelers were emboldened by vaccines, looser restrictions and cheap airfares. For many, their trips turned into one headache after another: Airlines schedules were…
Cleo Le-Tan does not have pets. Not in the shop she recently opened. Not in the home she shares with her husband, Alex Detrick, and their two children, ages 2 and 6. Which is not to say she doesn’t appreciate pets, or all animals, for that matter. She most certainly does — enough to establish…