A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, an unprecedented order that — if it stands through court challenges — could make it harder for patients to get abortions in states where abortion is legal, not just in those trying to…
Mimi Sheraton’s greatest innovation as a restaurant critic is still the only thing people want to talk about. The question comes up in interviews, casual conversations and any other time I get within close range of anybody who knows what I do for a living: “Do you wear disguises?” I don’t, I tell them, and…
What would you be willing to give for an ultraexclusive T-shirt? Hundreds of dollars? Hours spent waiting in line? How about blood? A white graphic T-shirt featuring the “Peanuts” character Snoopy has become an object of obsession online. The shirt was dropped by the Red Cross and “Peanuts” as part of a promotion to encourage…
Dr. Colin McCord, a surgeon credited with saving countless lives by championing a draconian ban on smoking in New York City and limits on trans fats in processed foods, galvanizing improved health care for Black men in Harlem, and improving maternal and child health globally, died on March 11 at his home in Oxford, England.…
A dirty martini can be many things: ice-cold, briny, savory, refreshing — and in unfortunate instances, murky, overly salty, terrible. But an eye toward quality, fresh ingredients and attention to detail have moved this often-polarizing combination of gin or vodka, vermouth and (a dirtying addition of) olive brine from loathsome to lovable. “The dirty martini…
These are good times for tofu lovers, with an expanding market and growing options. When Jenny Yang bought the Chicago-based company Phoenix Bean in 2006, she was keeping it from going out of business. Now, she is among a number of producers who are expanding offerings to include items like Chinese-style smoked tofu and tofu…
Mimi Sheraton, the food writer and former New York Times restaurant critic who died Thursday at 97, was a true omnivore, deeply curious about everything on the dinner table and well beyond. For fans of her writing and readers new to it, here’s a sampling of her Times work that attests to her wide range,…
A booming wedding industry is seemingly not enough to prop up the fortunes of one of the nation’s largest bridal retailers. David’s Bridal boasts that it sells one of every three wedding dresses in the United States. Yet it continues to struggle to manage its costs after emerging from bankruptcy five years ago, and it…
Maryam Jillani remembers the fervor around Eid al-Fitr celebrations ushered in by the end of Ramzan, the month of fasting and spiritual contemplation for Muslims. Endless meals included biryanis and kofta, lamb in its various iterations, milky-syrupy desserts, all laid out on embroidered tablecloths, among the good china and silverware, in drawing rooms across the…
A wave of illness hit New York City, with little warning. Soon, it was sending the death rate rocketing upward. It was 1834. New York City was just expanding its first railroad line. The penny press was flourishing. Cholera had struck. And smallpox was resurgent. It would be nearly 200 years before another shock that seismic, when the…