A Rainbow of Cooking Dishes

With the rise of the Omicron variant and people more wary of public gatherings, home cooking is back on the front burner. The MoMA Design Store is selling a useful and versatile ceramic baking dish that can be used on the top of the stove, on a grill, in the oven or microwave. The size…

A Jammy Condiment With Smoky Heat

A long and circuitous route has finally brought Gran Luchito’s chipotle paste to the United States. Though it’s made in Mexico City, it has been sold first in England, then in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia for the past nine years, and only arrived stateside this fall. The dense, jammy condiment packs smoky…

The What and Why of Orange Wines

We don’t ordinarily get too deeply into the details of making wine, but we will with our next subject, orange wines, also known as amber wines or skin-contact whites. The phrase “orange wine” was unknown 20 years ago, but the style and the techniques for producing the wines stretch back thousands of years. Essentially, orange…

Many Common Medications Can Raise Your Blood Pressure

There’s a long list of prescribed medications, as well as over-the-counter drugs and recreational substances and supplements, that can interfere with effective treatment for hypertension. In addition to estrogen-containing drugs and NSAIDS, the list includes widely used medicines like antidepressants and oral steroids such as cortisone; substances like nicotine, alcohol and cocaine; herbal supplements like…

How Disgust Explains Everything

The most important disgust accounts following Darwin come from a pair of Hungarian men born two years apart, Aurel Kolnai (born in 1900) and Andras Angyal (1902). I haven’t found any evidence that they knew each other, but it seems improbable that Angyal, whose disgust paper came out in 1941, didn’t draw from his countryman’s…