I fell in love with Maman, a cafe and bakery dressed in toile de Jouy, from the minute it opened on the edge of SoHo in 2014. And when the cookbook by the owners Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte, written with Lauren Salkeld, crossed my desk I decided that if it had the nutty chocolate…
Glen Lee, an actor and inventor with a passion for cooking Chinese food, decided to try to make his home stove behave like a restaurant wok stove, with extra high heat concentrated at the base of a traditional round-bottom steel wok. He succeeded after many years and finally introduced the two-part gadget for gas stoves…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are facing tough moral and political decisions over how to pursue their century-old dream of universal health care now that their ambitious $3.5 trillion social safety net bill will almost certainly have to be trimmed back. As they try to reduce the bill’s cost, members of the party disagree over whether to…
Sustainability is perhaps a newer benchmark for brands in the fashion industry—but it’s a value that has always been considered a signature of Italian style, and Umbrian-based label Fabiana Filippi is no exception. Intricate craftsmanship, careful selection of raw materials, and respect for the land (and the people who inhabit it), have become second nature…
The Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the few remaining places on Earth where a nomadic people retain a traditional culture. On the tundra, the Nenets, an Indigenous minority in the Russian north, follow a lifestyle shaped by the seasonal migrations of the reindeer they herd. While Covid brought travel to a halt…
Esa sensación arenosa y la comezón en los ojos puede ser ocasionada por muchas causas, entre ellas el tiempo que pasas frente a la pantalla. Los colirios podrían empeorar la situación.
For Ms. Cohen, it was an effort not only to challenge the very concept of tipping, which she called “inherently racist and sexist,” but also to attract and keep workers. “Everyone is making it seem like the difficulties finding staff is a post-pandemic issue,” she said. “But it was real before the pandemic, too, especially…
The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years, the companies announced early Monday morning. The news should help ease months of anxiety among parents and teachers about when children, and their close contacts, might be shielded from the coronavirus. The need is…
The dating service OkCupid has introduced a way for users to clearly indicate their support of abortion rights: a “pro-choice” badge that appears prominently in a dating profile. Melissa Hobley, OkCupid’s chief marketing officer, said the feature was created in response to the passage of Senate Bill 8, which has made abortion essentially illegal in…
Good morning. I was on a boat coming out of a marina in Brooklyn, idling along through Mill Basin along Four Sparrow Marsh, when a flock of black-crowned night herons took off from its perch on a ruined dock and flapped off silently toward the Belt Parkway. It was thrilling: birds being normal in a…