Choosing cabinets for a kitchen renovation seems simple enough. They’re essentially boxes for holding dishes, glasses and cooking utensils. How hard could it be? The decision-making process, it turns out, can be quite involved, since there are so many design details and features available — and considering the significant investment required. So it’s worth making…
Beef stew may be considered old-fashioned, but it remains one of the world’s great dishes, and one of the easiest. Since realizing that I could call it “wine-braised short ribs” and serve it at a dinner party, I have made beef stew in whatever form I find it: rendang and chili, stracotto and birria, daube…
At least twice a month, Lizzy Laufters could count on getting a free coffee. A member of the Dunkin’ loyalty program, Ms. Laufters, a 22-year-old digital account executive for a public affairs firm in Raleigh, N.C., stacked up points by frequently buying her favorite drink — a medium caramel iced coffee with two creams and…
It was at a 1926 English department faculty meeting that he met another Oxford professor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The friendship propelled both toward realizing their literary worlds: Middle-earth and Narnia. First impressions were not hot. “No harm in him,” Lewis wrote of Tolkien after their first meeting. “Only needs a smack or so.” The…