Wes Avila made his name popping up around Los Angeles selling wildly expressive tacos, his improbable mission in the name: Guerrilla Tacos. There were carnitas sometimes, under a green ripple of salsa, but what really got people’s attention at this teeny street cart was more unexpected: crisp-edged pork belly, duck confit, seared vegetables, fresh sardines,…
When I first read Mark Jason Williams’s essay in the Modern Love submission inbox, I laughed, sighed and nodded. His essay, “A Bet She Couldn’t Resist,” skillfully captures the well-intentioned but often overbearing love that mothers have for their children. His essay also captures the urgent need that children have to be seen and accepted…
I didn’t fully understand the appeal of chocolate mousse until a decade ago, when I had it at the home of my friends Cecile and Tom Renna. They hosted brunch on a July afternoon so oppressively humid, I couldn’t imagine eating much at all. But then Cecile brought out two big metal bowls — one…
As the United States begins a vaccination campaign against monkeypox, concerns are mounting among some experts that the demand may soon far exceed the available supply. Jynneos, the only vaccine developed for monkeypox, is made by a small Danish company, Bavarian Nordic. The company is expected to send about two million doses to the United…
And when Dr. Katz lost his job, Ms. Gold promptly published an essay about their relationship in Common Sense, the newsletter run by Bari Weiss, a former writer and editor for the opinion department of The New York Times. (“My alma mater is not the school I once loved,” went part of the headline. “But…
PARIS — For 18 years, Marie Marivel has worked as a security agent at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, screening throngs of passengers and thousands of bags each day. It has always been a taxing job, she says, but conditions have lately made it downright impossible, as staffing shortages nearly double her workload and…
‘Like a moth to a flame’ Although she said she struggled with shyness when she first became famous, along with “a fear of being perceived,” Ms. Rose, by her account, grew up a confident, popular child in South Philadelphia. She described herself as proudly mixed race. (Her mother is a Black woman from Cape Verde;…
This popular cannabis product claims to be milder than regular marijuana. But is it legal? And is it safe?
Push open the right unassuming black door beneath the elevated subway tracks at the Myrtle Avenue/Broadway stop in Brooklyn and you’ll enter a smoky room filled with hazy lights and neon orbs. Beyond the glowing bar, an arched doorway leads to a checkered dance floor. A regal D.J. booth hovers directly above enormous speakers and…
2. Double-Tomato Pasta Salad I appreciate this pasta dish from Ali Slagle because it uses an ingredient that should make a comeback: the sun-dried tomato. (My colleagues in Food and Cooking have never entirely agreed with me on this.) Ali combines it with fresh tomatoes for an effect she describes as “full-spectrum tomato flavor.” This…