Originally Italian, the Christmas Eve Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner has a wider audience now. It makes for an interesting, if challenging, celebratory menu. The wholesale Fulton Fish Market has simplified assembling the essential ingredients, and you do not have to be a chef to gain access since the market has been selling to…
Last year was a tough one. Americans grappled with a global pandemic, the loss of loved ones, lockdowns that splintered social networks, stress, unemployment and depression. It is probably no surprise that the nation’s blood pressure shot up. On Monday, scientists reported that blood pressure measurements of nearly a half-million adults showed a significant rise…
Hell hath no fury like a social media mob that thinks it has identified a luxury scam. Or so it seemed this weekend, when a series of viral TikTok videos involving an $825 Chanel advent calendar and the disappointed customer who bought it went viral, inspiring a multitude of users to call foul on the…
While the pandemic halted or shuttered many restaurants and bars, soda shops were able to stay open and thrive during the first few months of the pandemic, largely because of their drive-through lanes. “It became a nice little escape from being stuck at home all the time,” Ms. Durfey said. As a nod to her…
In the Munich atelier of the jewelry house Hemmerle, diamonds are meticulously sorted according to color into a series of little boxes. The labels read: Flaschengrün, or bottle green; Benzin, or gasoline; Camouflage; Dark Golden; Grau I, II and III, which are three variations of gray; and Schlamm, or muddy. These names hardly conjure up…
According to the website Know Your Meme, which tracks viral internet phenomena, the earliest documented usage of “the feminine urge to …” was a Twitter post from 2009. But an official entry for the phrase was not added to the site until October of this year, when Owen Carry, who wrote the entry, noticed it…
When I’m cooking at home, I usually don’t have a recipe at hand. Often, I’m cooking by feel, like confidently noodling on the piano without sheet music. But, of course, you do need practice before you can ad-lib. This menu features dishes that can be prepared using that approach, although recipes are supplied. Many home…
Most watch lovers would agree that owning a timepiece by Patek Philippe means you have arrived in the horological big leagues. But, for extra cachet, what if the face of the watch featured the retailer’s name — say, Tiffany & Company — and was the color of its signature robin’s egg blue? And, for even…
JOHANNESBURG — This sprawling city is South Africa’s economic hub, attracting people from all over the country, the continent and beyond. How its almost six million residents adorn themselves is equally varied, with some choosing to reflect their dreams while others strive to hold onto pieces of home or celebrate elements of this fast-changing metropolis.…
Few of the visitors who marvel at the Okavango Blue Diamond on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York will see a history lesson in geology and plate tectonics in its 20.46 carats. But scientists do. The oval brilliant-cut fancy diamond, which has a clarity grade of VVS1, meaning it has…