As a line cook in the early 2000s, I learned exactly how addicting fried shallots can be: If, after painstakingly frying them, I left them anywhere in sight, I’d wind up with an empty jar as other cooks grazed on them throughout the day. The same thing happens at home now if I leave them…
AUSTIN, Texas — On a warm evening in March, sorority girls in sundresses and frat guys in moisture-wicking polos lined up at Cain and Abel’s, a popular bar near the University of Texas at Austin, for a drink ticket and a chance at everlasting love — both courtesy of Ilios, a dating app that matches…
Courtesy Summer is quickly approaching, which means we can finally look forward to beach days, summer picnics, and fun weekend vacations. Unfortunately, the arrival of summer also signals the arrival of sweaty nights for some of us (especially if you, like me, do not have an air conditioner that works for your space). But summer…
Name a clothing item more versatile than leggings—you can wear them to work out, lounge on the couch, run errands, or just pair with a nice oversized blouse for brunch. But in the world of leggings, there’s one brand that reigns supreme: Lululemon. And, if you’ve never thrown on a pair of comfy Lulu leggings,…
LOS ANGELES — Oliver Sim was happy to be a monster. Too happy. On the London set of the short film “Hideous,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, the 32-year-old musician was living his fanboy fantasies of becoming a creature from a horror movie. “They were like, ‘You have to relax your…
Pfizer and BioNTech said on Monday that preliminary findings of a clinical trial of children younger than five showed three doses of their coronavirus vaccine produced a strong enough immune response to meet the criteria for regulatory authorization. In a news release, the companies announced results from a subset of a trial of 1,678 children…
On Sunday, the last day of the seventh straight week of a tumbling Dow, as titans of industry and finance gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for a delayed World Economic Forum, a different gathering took place in front of the New York Stock Exchange. There was screaming. There was jostling. There were gathered police officers and…
Visionaries is a limited series that looks at figures who are trying to transform the way we live. The last year has provided a number of reminders that the connections that create the global economy can be tenuous. In March 2021, high winds from a sandstorm blew a container ship sideways in the Suez Canal,…
A shipment of infant formula intended to fill a nationwide shortage arrived in the United States from Europe on Sunday, and a second flight was expected to bring additional supplies in the coming days, the Biden administration said. The shipment, equivalent to about 500,000 eight-ounce bottles, contained a hypoallergenic formula for children with cow’s milk…
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Guy Fieri looks as if he has prepared his whole life to be a middle-aged rock star. He has grays in the famous goatee now, a faint tan line beneath his chain necklace and a pair of hulking middle-finger rings that do not slow his incorrigible fist-bumping. He talks about the…