I’ve traveled to the Maldives, the Seychelles, the Caribbean, Thailand, Bali, the South Pacific and beaches up and down Africa’s coast. But this one, called Radha Nagar, after a Hindu goddess, was more beautiful than any other. I dove in. A few strokes later I was swimming in water above my head but still clear…
Slowik’s tasting menu structures the film, and works as a kind of Rorschach test that characters take and evaluate, course by course, each hearing what they want in his stories and descriptions, and seeing what they want in his glacial, highly manipulated presentations. “He’s insulting you,” Margot says when the bread course arrives — without…
The love for the honoree was palpable. “Brooke is this intelligent, reasoned adult who’s showing me a path through difficult materials, and God, I love that,” said the evening’s host, the comedian Samantha Bee, before she took the stage. Ms. Bee noted that she listens to Ms. Gladstone’s show twice on most weekends. “It’s very…
That night, I woke up crying. My husband held me. There were dirty clothes on the floor. I realized that, like all profound loss, miscarriage was a private drama that would unfold against the quotidian backdrop of my life. I sought company in art, looking for writing as raw and unsparing as my experience. I…
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — It was a crisp October day at Farm Sanctuary, and inside the small, red barn, the chicken people were restless. A rooster, or maybe two, yodeled somewhere out of sight. A bruiser of a turkey strutted through an open door, tail feathers spread like an ornamental fan. And a penned flock…
Courtesy of the brands We’ve all got that friend whose religion is working out. They exercise five to six days a week and are great at all the modalities (kickboxing, cycling, Pilates, yoga, rowing, jogging—what don’t they do?!). They always get kudos from instructors (usually because you can’t miss them up in the front) and…
Despite monkeypox fading from public attention, scientists are still learning how it spreads — including without sexual contact or any symptoms.
“@adamdavidson’s decision not to take action on anti-trans content isn’t inspiring confidence and I totally understand why other places are doing instance-level blocking,” she wrote on journa.host. (Instance-level blocking refers to the ability, on Mastodon, for one server to block content from another.) Zach Everson, one of the journa.host administrators, responded that he agreed with…
Christian VierigGetty Images Net-a-Porter’s Black Friday sale brings out a different kind of buyer’s remorse—the type where you regret not shopping as much as you possibly could have. The retailer is known year-round for exclusive designer pieces and the most closet-worthy edits in every category, from straight-leg jeans to wool coats to leather totes. It’s…
Not too many cooks, but just enough: There are 75 of them — chefs, farmers and Indigenous home cooks — that have contributed recipes to this collaboration between the United Nations and Kitchen Connection Alliance, a nonprofit that seeks to improve systems for growing and distributing food worldwide. Sustainability and healthy eating are front and…