Last May, the city of Los Angeles turned a fabled baseball park into a mass testing site for the coronavirus. At its peak, Dodger Stadium was testing 16,000 people a day for the virus, making it the biggest testing site in the world, said Dr. Clemens Hong, who oversees coronavirus testing in Los Angeles County.…
I have never had a waist or hips; in my 20s I always described myself as “straight up and down.” Now, children and pandemic later, I’m 25 pounds heavier, and it all shows up around my stomach. It feels as if fashion is doing a better job of appreciating a woman’s “curves,” but that always…
With the number of people in the United States vaccinated against the coronavirus climbing, Americans are starting to explore their prospects for international travel this summer, a season when Europe is traditionally a big draw. Most of Europe has been off-limits to most U.S. citizens for over a year, and the continent is currently grappling…
It’s spring! And Passover! Chag sameach. Personally, I like to treat Passover as an opportunity to eat matzo brei, matzo ball soup and macaroons for dinner as often as possible. (I want to try Susan Spungen’s new matzo frittata, too, in keeping with my preference for a denser brei.) Not all of the dishes below…
Sometimes I remember the clunky devices of my youth — the boxy Polaroid cameras, the bricklike car phones, the shrill answering machines, the pagers that could be made to spell an angular, all-caps “BOOBS.” This was the personal tech of the early-to-mid-1990s, in the years before AOL Instant Messenger provided an internet on-ramp, which means…
The last time Ralph Lauren had a real live fashion show, it was a doozy. That was way back in September 2019, when the world was in a very different place. And way back in September 2019, he built a whole retro 1920s nightclub, dripping in crystal chandeliers and Art Deco, in an abandoned bank…
A slew of new ads show sloppy kisses. Air travel is ticking back up. And impending vaccination can seem like a ticket back to normalcy for 20-somethings in the United States, many of whom feel desperate to get back to their 2019 social lives. Cramped parties. Strobe-lit dance floors. The ability to spontaneously text a…
In 1908, the Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda discovered that an amino acid called glutamate in kombu, or dried kelp, was responsible for the wonderful savoriness in his wife’s dashi, a stock that forms the basis of many dishes including miso soup, shabu shabu and okonomiyaki. Because that unique flavor was not salty, sweet, sour or…
Baked feta may be having a moment, but it’s got nothing on a slab of halloumi seared until golden, crisp and slightly melted. A mild, firm Cypriot cheese traditionally made from a combination of sheep and goat milk and submerged in brine, halloumi has a higher melting point than many other cheeses. This makes it…
This is nice for A-list actors who prefer to promote films without so much hoopla and personal talk. Emma Stone, for example, appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” in November without mentioning her pregnancy, still rumored at the time, once; most viewers probably didn’t even notice, as she was filmed only from the…