Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with more than 75,000 of its health care workers Friday morning, a week after a three-day walkout that disrupted appointments and services at many hospitals and clinics. The labor dispute was the latest in a series between health care organizations and their employees, many of whom cite exhaustion, burnout…
Colette Rossant, a native of Paris whose childhood in Cairo before and during World War II gave her a global view of cuisine that eventually helped fuel a prominent career in New York as a cookbook author, food critic and food memoirist, died on Thursday at her home in Normandy, France. She was 91. The…
Ines Di Santo was inspired by a scrap of vintage lace she came across while studying fashion design in Paris. In an era where brides ask for more wedding looks, she said she wanted to create pieces that can be reworn at cocktail events beyond the wedding weekend. Courtesy of Ines Di Santo
Ines Di Santo was inspired by a scrap of vintage lace she came across while studying fashion design in Paris. In an era where brides ask for more wedding looks, she said she wanted to create pieces that can be reworn at cocktail events beyond the wedding weekend. Courtesy of Ines Di Santo
Ines Di Santo was inspired by a scrap of vintage lace she came across while studying fashion design in Paris. In an era where brides ask for more wedding looks, she said she wanted to create pieces that can be reworn at cocktail events beyond the wedding weekend. Courtesy of Ines Di Santo
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered R.J. Reynolds to stop selling its popular Vuse Alto menthol e-cigarettes, a decision Reynolds immediately said it would challenge in court. On Thursday, the agency denied applications by Reynolds to keep its top-selling menthol products permanently on the market, saying that the company did not meet the federal…
Every mascot has its thing. Some dunk. Others flip. As for Ellie the Elephant, the mascot for the New York Liberty women’s basketball team? She twerks. Amelia Bane, 33, said she was blown away the first time she saw Ellie at a Liberty game in 2021. Ms. Bane, a video editor and a host of…
For much of the year in Haiti, rain seeps into the crevices of rotting wood, sparking the growth of an island delicacy: an earthy, black mushroom named djon-djon that is the main ingredient for a rice dish made on special occasions. The mushrooms are handpicked throughout the rainy season and left to shrivel in the…
Making yeasted bread is one of the few acts of cooking where ingredients actually come to life. Dough expands in size and flavor when yeast feast on sugar to then release carbon dioxide gas. Seeing and smelling dough rise can be as restorative as eating the warm loaf, but only if the process feels foolproof…
The lighting designer Lindsey Adelman knows how to throw a classic dinner party — the kind with cocktails and good conversation — but as a host, she says, she gravitates toward formats that offer her guests “bliss in an unconventional way.” Accordingly, she’s organized figure-drawing sessions, sound baths and, most recently, a two-hour cacao ceremony.…