You take chickpeas, hard and dry, and boil them until their skins loosen and they reveal themselves, tender little hulks with souls of butter. Maybe you think of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi’s parable of a chickpea that rises from the pot’s seething depths to accuse the cook of torture — only for the cook…
Your first taste of a ripe pawpaw or persimmon can leave you hungry for more. That’s why Michael Judd is confident that he can persuade you to make room for several of these trees in your front yard — or even to surrender your lawn altogether. Turning your yard into a meadow or blanketing it…
Deanna Giulietti is not in the actors’ union, but she turned down $28,000 last week because of its strike. Ms. Giulietti, a 29-year-old content creator with 1.8 million TikTok followers, had received an offer to promote the new season of Hulu’s hit show “Only Murders in the Building.” But SAG-AFTRA, as the union is known,…
It’s a “Barbie” world. We’re all just living in it. After a year and a half of hype, a whirlwind press tour and stellar advance reviews, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” finally hit theaters this past weekend, smashing box-office records with a $162 million debut, the biggest of the year. That’s the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for…
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My sister sent me a TikTok in which the comedian Matt Bellassai shares his hourslong journey to New York City’s last Dairy Queen, on Staten Island, only to find that it’s closed. This week, I found myself in a similar situation: I drove to Staten Island on a Monday in search of the family-owned Skippy’s…
Why It Matters: Some of these medicine are not widely produced. The U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit that examines the drug supply chain, took a close look at the likely effect of the tornado damage. The nonprofit assigns “vulnerability scores” to medications, accounting for factors linked to shortages, like low prices, quality problems at production sites…
Potluck Club opened last summer on Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side — outside the old boundaries of Chinatown, in an area where younger Chinese businesses sidle up against tattoo parlors, oyster bars and candlelit cocktail lounges with disguised speakeasy entrances. It’s a perfect location for a neo-Cantonese restaurant that looks at Chinatown traditions…
God’s Wife We called Dad “The Answerman.” He seemed to know the answer to every question. Mom accused him of thinking he knew more than God, which was funny since my father was agnostic. “I guess that makes me God’s wife,” she would say. She even went so far as to get a vanity license…
Headliner Blue Bird Jon Howard, the bar and hospitality director for Sayless Hospitality, is taking a seasonal approach to cocktails at this new bar and bistro on the edge of the East Village. Fruits and vegetables, including red and green tomatoes, peaches, mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots, onions and rhubarb figure into his culinary cocktail creations. Red…