Residents of the Taube Pavilion in Mountain View, Calif., wake up in private rooms with views of the wooded Santa Cruz Mountains, have breakfast in airy communal spaces and can hang out in landscaped courtyards throughout the day. It may sound like a resort, but the Taube Pavilion is a $98 million mental health facility…
“I was worked to the bone, drained of my love for restaurants, convinced that I was bad at my job, that I wasn’t cool, that I didn’t belong, that I wasn’t a hard worker, that I wasn’t worthy,” she writes. Until recently, when we heard stories like this, they were told by chefs. Screaming and…
Over the summer, Lucas Robinson sat on his couch in Los Angeles, popped on a pair of virtual reality glasses and prepared to watch his friend’s wedding. The couple set up an entire V.R. system so guests could feel like they were at the wedding. “We were escorted to a seat, and everyone had a…
Jan. 5, 2021, 10:20 a.m. ET Jan. 5, 2021, 10:20 a.m. ET The New York Times Former farmworker, Immokalee, Fla. Video CreditCredit…Video by Alfonso Duran I worked on and off over the years. I worked for the last full season here, including during the pandemic. I started in August of 2019 in planting, then I…
Louisiana Creole cuisine is eclectic. Uniting the flavors and fare of West Africa, France, Spain, the Caribbean and the American South, it highlights the various cultures that resided in South Louisiana in the 18th century. And, as food often does, it transcended the otherwise-segregated society, bringing together heritages on a plate. Creole cuisine is often…
California’s daily coronavirus case tallies remain around four times what they were during the state’s summer surge, and officials predict that the aftereffects of a December surge linked to holiday gatherings will worsen as the winter drags on. After new infections — driven by Thanksgiving travel and gatherings, then Christmas festivities — resulted in a…
With so much time spent at home, many of us are binge-watching TV in alarming amounts — and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. To get the most out of your time in front of the TV, you need more than just a handful of streaming services: You need a comfortable room where you want…
While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the World at Home invites you to channel the spirit of a new place each week with recommendations on how to explore the culture, all from the comfort of your home. On a clear day, from the…
Like many American wellness remedies, the drink is actually a repackaged ritual from another country — in this case, Italy. Known to some Italian natives as “canarino,” or canary, the drink is one of the country’s many “nonna’s remedies” that are used as a post-meal digestif, upset-stomach soother or cold killer, depending on who you…
Just as the first coronavirus reports were emerging from China in late 2019, the medical world was observing the 20th anniversary of “To Err is Human,” the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine that opened our eyes to the extent of medical error. The news media jumped on the popular aviation metaphor, that the…