Howdy, I’m Tanya, a New York Times Cooking editor and Emily’s gracious understudy this week. You should know that there are a few hills I’d die on: The “Star Wars” prequels weren’t as bad as everyone said they were, the best s’mores are deeply charred and a little salty, and we should all be making…
Because of my daughter’s braces, our family’s summer corn-on-the-cob-palooza has been temporarily nixed. Corn is still on the menu — thank goodness — but the kernels need to be cut off the cob, lest any gnawing ravage the delicate infrastructure of modern orthodontics. The upside to all this is that my corn kernel repertory has…
WASHINGTON — Critics of the climate change, health and tax law enacted this week have seized on a provision addressing high drug prices to make inaccurate claims. The law fulfilled a long-held goal of Democrats: to empower the federal government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare patients. That has come at a cost to Medicare…
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,…