ANAHEIM, Calif. — The strawberry Dole Whip sundae at Disneyland, in its first minute or so of life, looks perfect. Billowed with fresh fruit and a syrupy drizzle, veiled with tender cake crumbs, it has the dazzling color and softly drooping tip of a cartoon dessert. By the time you pick up a spoon and…
“These are good times for tofu lovers,” Andrea Nguyen writes in The New York Times this week, for her smart tofu primer that considers three categories: basic, chewy and intensely flavored. She reports that America’s tofu consumption has roughly doubled in recent years, fueled in part by a growing interest in plant-based cooking. Whether smoked,…
Just when so much in the culture is stuck in what can seem like a grimly benighted loop comes a ray of alt-cult sunshine to brighten our tiny screens. What unexpected form does it take? A music video. Nowadays the announcement of a new high fashion-high street collaboration is roughly as exciting as a Steve…
The story of England’s medieval Jewish communities, she said, has “never been thought ‘important’ enough by mainstream academia, if you like, to be included as part of that narrative.” This galls her: “You cannot talk about the medieval English economy without talking about the Jewish community,” she said. “It’s ludicrous to have them excluded from…
I have spent the past few decades collecting what I consider to be a stylish wardrobe — much of which is black in color. While I love black’s versatility and timelessness, I am starting to feel like I am in a rut, and would like to break out a bit. What can I do to…
From pocket-stretching smartphones to wall-hogging TVs, Americans have often asked: How much screen is too much? The question has come to today’s gadget-stuffed cars, whose increasingly colossal screens are splitting opinions among designers, car buyers and industry critics. These do-it-all touch screens, the nerve centers of many new cars, have sparked a backlash because of…
A federal judge’s ruling to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses threats to the U.S. government’s regulatory authority that could go far beyond one drug, legal experts say. The decision by a Texas judge appears to be the first time a court has moved toward ordering removal…