Spinal surgery four years ago left Alene Shaheed in a wheelchair and dependent on short daily visits from home health aides to help her get around. But her support system fell apart this year during the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, and her routine care became unpredictable. Four agencies serving her hometown, Jacksonville, Fla., failed to provide…
LONDON — If you’ve ever swiped a supple piece of pita bread through a plate of garlicky hummus and your family roots aren’t in the Middle East, you may have Claudia Roden to thank. In 1968, in the modestly titled “A Book of Middle Eastern Food,” the 32-year-old Egyptian exile gave the non-Arabic-speaking world one…
Bonne Maman, a popular maker of jams and preserves, has added herbal teas to its inventory. It also uses “wellness” as a selling point with each variety supposedly devised to bring delight, vitality, serenity and so forth, something that has become de rigueur for many products. These teas don’t need it; they’re lovely enough on…
She added, “As my career developed, it was fun; he wore me like a rose in his buttonhole.” Dr. Lezak worked at clinics and taught psychology at Portland State College (now University) and the University of Portland from 1949 until she began her 19-year tenure at the V.A. hospital in 1966. In 1985, she left…
Hill House Home is as known for its devoted fan base as its era-defining hero piece, the nap dress. Today, the legions of shoppers known as Nap Dress Nation are getting an early gift from its favorite brand: an unabashedly festive drop incorporating shoppers’ most frequent requests, and new additions they didn’t know to ask…
In contrast with Dr. Ellis, a flamboyant, tough-love father figure who died in 2007, Dr. Beck came across as an affectionate paterfamilias. Smiling softly beneath a rich sweep of white hair, wearing a bright bow tie and tailored suit, he engaged patients gently, chipping away at self-defeating beliefs with Socratic questions: Would you agree it…
He encourages anybody who gets a positive result that seems strange — you have no symptoms and no known exposure — to take another test, ideally with another brand. “The chance of getting two false positives is so low that if one test comes back negative, you can trust it,” he said. “If you test…
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Dogfish Head, the brewery founded in 1995 in Rehoboth Beach, Del., by Sam Calagione and his wife, Mariah Calagione, has gone on to become a leading craft brewer releasing dozens of beers each year. Located in Milton, Del., it is now a subsidiary of The Boston Beer Company and has added a distillery, several restaurants…
The creators of the Butter Hub have tried to think of everything when it comes to butter storage and have probably succeeded for households that do not mind plastic on the table. It comes with a stainless steel spreader that clings to a magnet on top of the cover; the cover has legs so it…