Last week, Kim Severson had an inspiring piece in The Times about the influential cookbook author and teacher Raghavan Iyer, who, Kim reported, by some estimations has taught more Americans how to cook Indian food than anyone else. He wrote his recently published book, “On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World…
Payment apps and touch screens have made it easy for merchants to ask us for preset gratuity amounts. We don’t need to succumb to the pressure.
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music The appointment of the storied hip-hop and pop producer Pharrell Williams to the creative director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton marks a new phase of the union of hip-hop style and luxury clothing, two worlds that have been hurtling toward each other for…
Since its founding in 1852, the Jaipur, India, jewelry emporium the Gem Palace has been known for its dazzling diamonds, rubies and sapphires. But Siddharth Kasliwal, a partner at the Gem Palace and the creative director of Munnu the Gem Palace — the New York City atelier started by his late father, Munnu — has…
My grandson has been married three times and has two children: a baby boy with his third wife and an 8-year-old daughter from his first marriage. He refuses to have any contact with his daughter or pay any child support to his first wife. I am hurt and angry by his abandonment of his child!…
When ERA started, its goal was to make EVT accessible to every one of the 400 or more Albertans who are eligible for it each year. Last year, the province’s stroke teams completed 378 of the procedures. About 5 to 15 percent of stroke patients turn out to be candidates for an endovascular thrombectomy. But…
PARIS — Emily’s not in Paris any more. Her Disneyfied, funfair version of French style, the kind that created its own mini culture war, has been banished by the names — Dior, Saint Laurent —- that once defined the term. You want that mythic thing known as French chic; that chimera that answers the Quixotian…
PARIS — Was 1997 a watershed year for modern fashion? Next week, at the Palais Galliera museum, a new blockbuster exhibition will make the case that the year was both a high point of 1990s fashion — a current focus of nostalgia — and the gateway to the millennium. With dozens of looks, the show…
Homegrown tastes of the tropics slumber in Marianne Willburn’s freezer — even now, when it’s almost as cold outside as it is in the suspended animation of that icy, dark compartment. And in the heat of peak growing season, the ginger, turmeric or lemongrass that she stashes to enliven a warming wintertime curry make themselves…
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