Biscotti are the everyday sidekicks for a glass of vin santo, or an inky ristretto. But in Puglia, in southeast Italy, the choice is often taralli — dry, ring-shaped biscuits with a final twist, frequently made with a whiff of anise or black pepper. They have a long shelf life and, like bagels, are usually…
LONDON — There were biscuits, just not the kind British people know. “It looks like a scone,” Victoria Ubochi said after trying a biscuit, “but it doesn’t taste like one.” One of the challenges for any company expanding internationally is translating the cultural elements of its brand to a new market. For Popeyes, the American…
I step into the tobacco field as the first rays of sunlight begin to pierce the early-morning fog. The men of the cutting crew are already hard at work harvesting the tall burley tobacco plants that have taken root in the soil over the past few months. The sound of hatchets resonates across the field:…
Safety data from those trials was published Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology in a study whose authors included eight Biogen employees. The data showed that 425 of 1,029 patients, or 41 percent, who received the high dose of the drug — the dose that the F.D.A. later approved — experienced either brain swelling or…
Good morning. Your turkey’s thawing in the refrigerator, yes? It oughta be, if you bought a frozen one. Thursday’s coming fast, and you do not want to be the person emailing me on Thanksgiving morning to ask what to do with the brick-hard 20-pounder you just pulled out of the freezer. Dry brines start tomorrow!…
As Asian countries are learning to live with the coronavirus — with the notable exception of China — and gaining momentum in their vaccination campaigns, several are cautiously reopening their borders and welcoming travelers. Although the Asia-Pacific region initially lagged in vaccinations and many countries remained committed to some of the world’s toughest restrictions for…
La actividad física parecería lo último que alguien con dolor querría hacer. Pero puede traer alivio.
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia has a notable pedigree. His lineage, which includes Catherine the Great, also encompasses the deposed royal families of Italy, Russia and Greece — and his mother is Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, known for her fabulous collection of emeralds. “I would see her getting ready to go out,” the prince recalled,…
Zahra Sahebzada had a view of the Manhattan skyline long before she moved into her Long Island City apartment. “It was on my vision board a few years back,” she said. “I’m all about manifesting.” Previously she was living in Hicksville, N.Y., on Long Island, where her family moved 20 years ago. Around 2016, she…
In an editorial on “The Potential and Pitfalls of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring,” published in JAMA Cardiology in October, Dr. Khan and her co-author, Dr. Ann Marie Navar, a cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, concluded that for middle-aged and older adults like my friend, the calcium test is one of the…