Fermentation, to me, is like a dance with my environment, at times loose and improvisational, but always measured and contained. What better way to cook is there than to rely on nature to alter an ingredient, at its own pace? Broadly speaking, it is a process that transforms an ingredient, using elements — bacteria, yeast,…
The other things do matter. Many digital recordings, for example, use Auto-Tune, a technology that can change a singer’s pitch if it strays off-key, but which might alter the swoops and wavers that give a voice character. With digital technology, producers can replace bum notes or inadvertent sounds. Imperfections are eliminated. Often, though, the greatness…
A traveler who put a tracking device in her bag helped sheriff’s deputies in Florida identify an airport worker who was accused of stealing more than $16,000 in goods from passengers’ luggage, the authorities said. Giovanni De Luca, 19, a baggage handler at Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport, was arrested on Aug. 10 and charged with…
A few days into a two-week tour through the island province of Hainan — known as the Hawaii of China — Nicole Chan received a message from local authorities that no traveler in the country wants to see in the pandemic. On Aug. 3, a day after officials reported 11 cases of Covid-19 in Sanya,…
In the summer of 2016, Andrew John Zbihley was scrolling through the Northwestern Class of 2020 Facebook page looking for a roommate when a photo of his future classmate, Olivia Natalia Pura, caught his eye. “I noticed her profile picture was of her walking across the Miss Teen USA stage,” said Mr. Zbihley, 24. “It…
The message I had dreaded for years appeared on my phone: “Looking to find the sister of my patient, Jay Friedman.” My ensuing phone conversation with the doctor brought ominous news. My 65-year-old brother, Jay, had advanced pancreatic cancer. He and I grew up together in Divine Corners, N.Y., a hamlet in the Catskills, raised…
It wasn’t long after Denise Nicole Pyfrom gave an inch, so to speak, that she came across Daniel Evan White on Hinge in January 2019. The two, then living in Manhattan, matched on the dating app once Ms. Pyfrom changed her preferences from a minimum height of 6 feet to 5 feet 11 inches. “Really,…
Naomi Ariela Mishkin arrived with plaster falling from her hair when she met Graham Henry Lazar for a drink in May 2014 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It didn’t bother him one bit. “I love creative people,” Mr. Lazar said. He first met Ms. Mishkin — an artist-turned-fashion designer nicknamed Nomi — the previous fall when…
Before they even met, Adam Gene Rouse had begun to master Sara Nicole Bunting’s love language. The pair matched on a dating app in September 2020, and on a phone call before their first date, Dr. Rouse, who holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, mentioned that he had a…
Patrick William Straub was commuting to his office on a packed M14 bus in Manhattan when an older man standing near him collapsed in December 2013. Another passenger, Chelsea Bryn Toder, saw the man fall from afar and called 911. After the bus pulled over and almost all of the other passengers dispersed, the two…