“Do restaurants even care about Covid-conscious diners anymore?” A version of this question has appeared in the Where to Eat inbox on a regular basis since I started writing this newsletter nearly a year ago. And to be honest, I didn’t quite feel comfortable making risk assessments for anyone other than myself. “Risk tolerance is…
“Do restaurants even care about Covid-conscious diners anymore?” A version of this question has appeared in the Where to Eat inbox on a regular basis since I started writing this newsletter nearly a year ago. And to be honest, I didn’t quite feel comfortable making risk assessments for anyone other than myself. “Risk tolerance is…
“Do restaurants even care about Covid-conscious diners anymore?” A version of this question has appeared in the Where to Eat inbox on a regular basis since I started writing this newsletter nearly a year ago. And to be honest, I didn’t quite feel comfortable making risk assessments for anyone other than myself. “Risk tolerance is…
“Do restaurants even care about Covid-conscious diners anymore?” A version of this question has appeared in the Where to Eat inbox on a regular basis since I started writing this newsletter nearly a year ago. And to be honest, I didn’t quite feel comfortable making risk assessments for anyone other than myself. “Risk tolerance is…
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease, for example, are dramatically expanding their range in the northern United States. Bats are also on the move, and with them diseases that they transmit, such as rabies. In the Northeast, lobsters are dying of a fungal disease linked to warming, and fish are migrating north or into deeper waters in…
It is the rare person who likes hearing their own voice on a recording. It sounds fake, somehow — like it belongs to someone else. For neuroscientists, that quality of otherness is more than a curiosity. Many mysteries remain about the origins of hallucinations, but one hypothesis suggests that when people hear voices, they are…
The ubiquity of certain “it” handbags on social media can create a feeling of snow blindness when you’re scrolling online. If you want to break out of that trend cycle, the solution is obvious: Get a vintage bag. This is a wild and exciting world to dive into! It’s also overwhelming. Allow me to talk…
The Market Hotel, a gritty music club in Brooklyn that shakes every time the subway rumbles overhead, gets its share of rowdy performances. But even its hardened patrons were not prepared for the spectacle of Christeene, a self-described “drag terrorist” who held an album release party on a recent Wednesday night. As discordant jazz notes…
The Market Hotel, a gritty music club in Brooklyn that shakes every time the subway rumbles overhead, gets its share of rowdy performances. But even its hardened patrons were not prepared for the spectacle of Christeene, a self-described “drag terrorist” who held an album release party on a recent Wednesday night. As discordant jazz notes…
“The Doubleday Cookbook,” published in 1975, was the new kid on the block, a 1,300-page, four-pound doorstop even more expansive than “Joy,” with more than 4,000 recipes, from abalone stew to zucchini and lamb casserole, with stopovers in sautéed calves’ brains, homemade wontons and butterscotch brownies. It went on to win many awards and sell…