For much of my life, I thought I didn’t like cucumbers. I liked sour pickles and Sichuan-style smashed cucumbers, but in most other settings — especially bad renditions of Greek salad — cucumbers struck me as watery, slippery filler, the honeydew of the savory salad world. (I stand by my dislike of honeydew.) Why would you dunk…
When Ms. St. Clair started Animal Farm in 1999, she knew she wanted to raise Jersey cows. With them came a seemingly endless river of milk that needed a purpose. “Everyone else in Vermont was doing cheese,” Ms. St. Clair said, “I saw a niche with butter.” Specifically, the kind of tangy, high-fat, marigold-colored butter…
The anti-L.G.B.T.Q. protests culminated in 1997, when the Southern Baptist Convention announced a formal boycott, spurred, in part, by Disney’s refusal to block Gay Days. (The church lifted the boycott in 2005.) Would Gay Days 2022 mark a return to that divisive time? “There is definitely an added significance this year,” Tom Christ, who helped…
About 1.6 million people in the United States are transgender, and 43 percent of them are young adults or teenagers, according to a new report providing the most recent national estimates of this population. The analysis, relying on government health surveys conducted from 2017 to 2020, estimated that 1.4 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds and…
Before Rina Sawayama was a pop star, she was a gamer. With her hands on a controller, clambering around a virtual world, she could get out of her head and “be that character for the 50 hours or whatever the game’s going to take.” Video games were also a huge influence on her songwriting (and…
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security. For Indonesia it was cooking oil. For India, wheat. And for Malaysia, chickens. The bans have a political logic: Leaders do not want to be blamed…
Name: Hawa Age: 21 Hometown: Born in Berlin, and grew up in Guinea-Conakry and New York City Now Lives: In a sunny, two-bedroom apartment in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn Claim to Fame: Hawa is a classically trained queer rapper and sometimes fashion model, who is perhaps best known for her 2019 song “My…
Hugh Dancy flew around the rink, gliding from one foot to the next atop the black matting. The wind tousled his hair, the pattern on his houndstooth blazer blurring as he picked up speed. “It’s stopping that’s the issue,” Mr. Dancy said, with typical self-deprecation, as he passed. A star of the revived “Law &…
Edna Tafari Makonnen and Jamal Akil Robinson initially struggled to find equal social footing when they got together for coffee in February 2015. That she is royalty was not the problem. An Ethiopian princess, Ms. Makonnen is a great-granddaughter of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor, whose lineage is said to trace back to the biblical…
Since my midteens, I have sought heartfelt friendships rather than romantic ones. Older relatives of mine, aunts and uncles, deem this a wise choice, especially the prudish ones who insist there’s still time. I’m still in college, but for me, it’s not about maturity but the widespread assumption that everyone is better off in an…