Making coffee is easy. You just need to combine the ingredient and heat the water accordingly. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to make the perfect coffee. To achieve this goal, you’re going to need patience, precision, and practice. Sipping the perfect coffee in the morning will boost your mood and help ensure that you’re ready…
Some political and cultural events set off a cascade of emails from brands — sneaker, makeup and food companies telling their customers that they stand with them in a stressful time, or reminding them to vote. But after a draft opinion obtained by Politico revealed the Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, the…
Good morning. Some days when dark clouds are scudding in my head and I don’t much feel like cooking — even though cooking’s what I’m here to do — I march myself to the store anyway, and buy a package of hot dogs and another of buns. There’s no finer recourse to feeling low: a…
Cindy Sherman and Cate Blanchett had only met in passing, a few times. And yet there is an identifiable thread connecting the work of Sherman, the artist who (dis)appears, disguised in character, in her own photographs, and Blanchett, the protean and Oscar-winning Australian actress. On a gray morning in late April, the women, mutual admirers,…
GRAFTON, Vt. — When you cross into Vermont from New York, the road opens up and the Green Mountains emerge. Make it to Grafton (population: 645), and your cell service largely evaporates. This was where, on a recent day, Danny Roberts was standing in the doorway of the tiny cabin in the woods where he…
It’s hard not to notice the stuff on the Apple+ series “Severance”: the bulky old computers; the Chinese finger traps that mock modern office incentives; the phones that are, for once, not iPhones. “We’re doing our job if you don’t notice it,” Catherine Miller, the prop master for the series, said in a phone interview…
In early 2021, scientists in Colombia discovered a worrisome new coronavirus variant. This variant, eventually known as Mu, had several troubling mutations that experts believed could help it evade the immune system’s defenses. Over the following months, Mu spread swiftly in Colombia, fueling a new surge of Covid-19 cases. By the end of August, it…
Mulch can mitigate soil compaction, and it is better than bare soil at capturing water and fostering water penetration, so it reduces runoff. It also slows water evaporation from the underlying soil by up to 35 percent, Dr. Fonteno said, and it moderates soil temperatures in the summer and winter. It does all of this…
Until recently, I haven’t really had an insight into this question, but listening to Christopher Kimball speak with J. Kenji López-Alt on his ‘‘Milk Street Radio’’ podcast about another popular broccoli classic, beef and broccoli, served in many Chinese restaurants in America, I realized something new. López-Alt pointed out that in that particular dish, the…
Cibelle Levi What’s it like to prep for fashion’s biggest night? It takes a village—if you’re asking Eiza González. The actress, fresh off promoting her new movie Ambulance with Jake Gyllenhaal, hit the Met Gala red carpet in a stunning custom Michael Kors Collection gown, but not before a healthy dose of glam courtesy of…