SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty years into running his restaurant in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, Yening Liang had a sudden moment of revelation. It wasn’t enough, he realized, for the menus at Hop Woo to translate dishes like barbecue pork and roast duck from Cantonese into English. If he wanted the city’s Mexican, Central American and other…
Rose Chalalai Singh’s motto? “Never eat alone.” The Bangkok-born chef inherited her conviviality from her businessman father, who, she says, has never had a meal solus in his entire life. “The minute the food is on the table, he calls someone to join him,” says Singh, miming a telephone call. “And someone will call someone…
IT TURNS OUT that the Garden of Eden might have been missing a few things. Today, the fruit aisle is stocked with all kinds of new temptations, and they seem to be getting sweeter. Let’s start with the grapes, namely Cotton Candy grapes (green), Gum Drop grapes (purple) and Gummyberries (red). Imagine my disappointment when,…
I woke up around 5 a.m. to a low but incessant rumbling. Faint hints of daylight had appeared over my fellow passengers’ heads, most of which were still bent in rest. Some people yawned; others stared intently out the window at the valley. I had been aboard the train for about 40 hours, and there…
Nearly one in 10 women experience the chronic pain of endometriosis, but for many, the symptoms are dismissed. Why is this still happening?
We got a text that an indie show had started up at our favorite DIY venue, so we ditched the “Sonic” idea and ran to the east side. By some precious miracle, all my friends were there. As I wove through the crowd, colliding with familiar faces and outstretched hands, it felt religious, almost —…
Last year, a 35-year-old woman named Amanda, who lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had a miscarriage in the first trimester of her pregnancy. At a large hospital, a doctor performed a surgical procedure often used as a safe and quick method to remove tissue from a failed pregnancy. She awoke from anesthesia to find…
Say a postcard arrives in the mail, a reminder to make an appointment for a mammogram. Or a primary care doctor orders a PSA test to screen a man for prostate cancer, or tells him that because of his years of smoking, he should be screened for lung cancer. These patients, trying to be informed…
“We don’t sell NFTs, and we won’t,” said Bettina Huang, co-founder of Platform, an online marketplace for contemporary art that celebrated its first anniversary on Wednesday at the Bowery Hotel. The website, also co-founded by David Zwirner’s two children, Marlene and Lucas Zwirner, showcases artists from smaller galleries. It was a sticky night, and the…
Lily Watkins was born on Dec. 20, 1934, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her father, Wolf Watkins, was a British engineer who had moved to Latin America in search of business opportunities and found them while servicing the region’s booming rail industry. Her mother, Annita (Noudelman) Watkins, a homemaker, had fled her native Ukraine in the…