After a brutal summer surge, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, the coronavirus is again in retreat. The United States is recording roughly 90,000 new infections a day, down more than 40 percent since August. Hospitalizations and deaths are falling, too. The crisis is not over everywhere — the situation in Alaska is particularly…
WASHINGTON — The White House is considering nominating Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, to once again lead the agency, according to five people familiar with the search for a candidate. The F.D.A. has been without a permanent chief since President Biden took office, leading to frequent criticism from public…
Deaths from tuberculosis, the world’s biggest infectious disease killer until the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, have increased for the first time in more than a decade, totaling more than 1.5 million people in 2020. That trend is expected to worsen in 2021 and 2022, according to a report released on Thursday by the World Health Organization.…
However, Fred would be incorrect in painting oak barrels as the villain here. It’s important to distinguish between older oak barrels, which are often used to enhance texture and age-worthiness, and those that are used as flavoring agents, in which new oak can impart woody, vanilla, chocolate, toasty flavors as well as oak tannins. New…
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One of my favorite ways to dress a vegetable goes like this: Fry some mustard seeds and curry leaves, toss some ground coconut, crushed garlic and dried red chiles into the pan, and let it all toast very lightly. That’s it. This crumbly, sweet and savory topping is quick to make and goes with almost…
Even when the creative director Scott Formby was working around the clock for fashion and interior brands like Ralph Lauren and Frette, he’d figure out a way to get himself outdoors. “I’d organize a shoot in the middle of a garden on the Amalfi Coast,” he recalled recently from his home in Los Angeles’s Hollywood…
Not withstanding the many Greek diners around the country, Greek restaurants have not been remotely comparable in their integration into American culinary culture, nor has the cuisine. My companion railed against the quality of Greek restaurants in the United States. Indeed, at his suggestion, we met at an Italian restaurant. “If only Americans knew how…
Then on subsequent lab visits, the women ran for six minutes at a time, running at about 70 percent of their top speed, while the scientists monitored their oxygen consumption, the amount of lactate in their bloodstreams and their feelings about the difficulty of each run. During one of these sessions, the women fixated intently…