When the Icon of the Seas sets sail early next year, it will take some time to disappear from the horizon. At 1,198 feet long and a gross tonnage of 250,800, it is hard to miss. The Royal Caribbean cruise ship will have 20 decks packed with more than 20 bars and restaurants, seven pools,…
Hi! I’m back from vacation — rested, sunburned and extremely well-fed. Although cooking is part of my livelihood, it’s also my happy place, and a vacation gives me more time and head space to revel in it. I could take as much time as I liked dreaming up meal plans, experimenting with new ingredients, fussing…
At my boutique hotel high in the Swiss Alps, I returned from dinner, jet lagged and a tad tipsy, to discover that a television set inside a bathroom mirror had been turned on during turndown service. I pressed all of the buttons on the wall panel and then tried the switches on a control box…
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, has asked the F.D.A. to investigate a popular beverage created by the YouTube influencers Logan Paul and KSI over its high caffeine content.
I am part of a friend group with four other women. They are going on an amazing international trip and didn’t invite me. I have traveled successfully with one of the women and less successfully with the organizer of the trip. (That led to some distance between us, which we have since repaired.) I am…
If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough you can simulate the conditions required to grow choice species that would sulk in most in-ground beds: certain…
All we wanted after a magnificent snorkeling session off the coast of Western Australia was for the stupid motor home to start, to stop grinding away with that almost-but-not-today sound that made our hearts race faster than the engine. Bertie, as we called the 21-foot recreational vehicle we had rented, sounded like she wanted to…
On an afternoon in June, Erica Scalise was walking through Little Italy in Manhattan when the window of a kitschy souvenir shop gave her pause. Hanging in the display was a white T-shirt with a phrase printed in the red and green colors of Italy’s flag: “Daddy’s Little Meatball.” “It was 15 bucks,” Ms. Scalise…
Capers in our house could end up anywhere. My mother used to mix them with some soft herbs and olive oil to make a kind of rough salsa verde and spoon it over fried or roasted cauliflower. She also introduced them into German-style potato salads, with onion, mustard and broth. My father would fry the…
Why It Matters: Deer could be a source of new variants. There is no evidence that deer play a major role in spreading the virus to humans, but the transmission of the virus from people to animals raises several public health concerns. First, animal reservoir could allow viral variants that have disappeared from human populations…