In person, Ms. Afualo seemed a stark contrast from her energetic, sharp-tongued online persona. “I’m a lot more laid back than people think I am,” she said. “I’m only like that because that’s what I do — react to that terrible content.” At Boris and Horton, a cafe for people and their dogs, a corgi…
“Access to medicines for the treatment of obesity is dismal in this country,” said Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. But even if a patient’s insurer will cover weight loss drugs, most doctors do not suggest the drugs and most patients do not ask for…
This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Nathan Ko, the author, is 17 and goes to the The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. Told He Had Six Months to Live, He Opened an Art Exhibit By Nathan Ko In 2019, the South Korean photographer…
This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Gauri Gupta, the author, is 14 and goes to the The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India. Street Market Sweets By Gauri Gupta In March 2020, India experienced the first wave of Covid-19 and went into…
Sorry in advance for the frequent use of the phrase “finger foods” in this newsletter. As a society, we have got to come up with something more appealing. Hand cuisine? Digit diet? Those two options are even worse. “Finger food” also minimizes just how enjoyable and engaging it can be to eat food by hand,…
His Hand on My Thigh “Do you hear it?” the midwife asked. Holding a stethoscope to my newborn’s heart, I couldn’t hear anything. “Let me try removing my hearing aids,” I said. “Sometimes they get in the way.” I became a parent and learned I had hearing loss in the same year. Wyn, alert for…
Headliner La Marchande Nearly 200 years ago, the financial district was New York City’s hub for fine dining. With Crown Shy, Harry’s, Nobu Downtown, Temple Court, the new Le Gratin and this gracious restaurant and bar by John Fraser in the Wall Street Hotel, it’s heading in that direction again. The hotel, owned by Paspaley,…
Public health officials said they were investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A in the United States and Canada that is potentially linked to organic strawberries. American health officials said the outbreak most likely came from fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and H-E-B that were bought between March 5 and April 25. The strawberries were…
The multicultural evolution of the food of South Africa over the past 400 years will be surveyed and explained by Keri and Kelsi Matwick, twin sisters who have graduate degrees in linguistics and now teach on the university level. On June 9 at 6:30 p.m. in a Zoom program for the Culinary Historians of New…
Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s Omicron wave than it did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses. This winter’s wave of deaths in older people belied the Omicron variant’s relative mildness.…