AT A RECENT event in Paris for the London-based jewelry brand Alighieri, the food artist Imogen Kwok laid out along the length of a lavish banquet table blocks of steamed couscous and bulgur that she crumbled at the corners to evoke ancient ruins. Alighieri, which takes its name from the medieval Florentine poet and philosopher…
In the wild, is a human more likely to survive an encounter with an orca or a great white shark? — Kameryn F., Yardley, Pa. By the numbers, white sharks are a lot more dangerous to humans than orcas are. Despite the name “killer whale,” there’s only one well-documented instance of a wild orca attacking…
In September 2021, Evelyn Lai sat at the brown teak desk in her childhood bedroom and looked out the window. She felt just as uncertain as she had two decades ago. “I remember sitting at that same desk when I was applying to colleges,” Ms. Lai, 36, said. Now she was recalibrating her life. Feelings…
On a Monday night in April 2021, my sister texted me: “Have you talked to mom?” The message felt ominous. If it were good news (“Have you talked to mom? She won the lottery!”), my sister would have said so. I ran through my mental checklist of reasons I should have talked to my mom.…
“Bodies Bodies Bodies,” the Gen Z satirical slasher film, held an outdoor screening in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Aug. 2. Moviegoers braved the humid weather in short-shorts and crop tops and sprawled out on A24-branded blankets. It was followed by cold cocktails and paletas at the Kings County Distillery. The Shed held an opening…
Jan Longone, a curious, cordial and diligent food scholar who started a mail-order cookbook business from her Michigan basement that led to friendships with towering culinary figures like Julia Child and grew into one of the nation’s great cookbook collections, died on Aug. 3 in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 89. The death, at a…
WELLFLEET, Mass. — Sunday is turnaround day for the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, when the four houses it maintains are readied for the next group of tenants — the artists, writers and architecture buffs who jockey for a chance to spend a week in these modest bohemian monuments. Peter McMahon, an architect and the…
“Being a boss is not my strength,” Eileen Fisher said, shifting awkwardly in a seat from a sleek meeting room inside the headquarters of a company she started herself almost 40 years ago. That may seem surprising, given the degree to which Ms. Fisher, 72, has proved herself as a leader with staying power in…
Lyons Magnus, a nutritional drinks company, expanded a voluntary recall of some varieties of popular products including the oat drink Oatly, Optimum Nutrition protein powder and Glucerna shakes, because of the potential for microbial contamination, the company and federal authorities said this week. The company said in a statement on July 28 that no illnesses…
Polio outbreaks incited regular panics decades ago, until a vaccine was developed and the disease was largely eradicated. Then on Friday, New York City health authorities announced that they had found the virus in wastewater samples, suggesting polio was probably circulating in the city again. Parents of young children found themselves wondering — perhaps for…