The thing I find so interesting, though, as we talk ourselves out of matzo balls or mulligatawny, is that soup is so often the very thing we’re most likely to love and cook for ourselves at home. How to square this: that the food we get the most comfort from and feel most relaxed and…
On a recent trip to the Caribbean island of Antigua, Melissa Middlestadt, a writer from the Toronto area, was charged a $12-a-night resort fee by the all-inclusive Jolly Beach. She was told it covered the use of nonmotorized water-sports equipment and Wi-Fi. “We challenged them to remove it, but they wouldn’t, which was a bummer…
By now, the story of Britney Spears’s conservatorship and its eventual unraveling is well known: For years, Ms. Spears was trapped in a legal situation in which most of the money she earned went to her father, who controlled not only her finances, but things like her medication, her performance schedule and more. Ms. Spears’s…
Sam with the Answer My girlfriends made a habit of crushing on my big brother John. Exactly why, I had no clue. He was bespectacled, skinny, an honor roll guy — no jacked heartthrob. Karen T., Betsy B., had they ever really been my friends, or were they just using me to get within flirting…
Jeannette Simonton was a textbook candidate for the obesity drug Wegovy when her doctor prescribed it to her in February. At 5 feet 2 inches and 228 pounds, she had a body mass index of nearly 42 — well above the cutoff U.S. regulators had approved for eligibility for the medication. She also had serious…
Food shopping in Manhattan tends to be finite, more Paris than Paramus, dominated by neighborhood markets. Now Wegmans — the chain based in Rochester, N.Y., with more than 100 East Coast stores, including one in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is poised to put 87,500 square feet of groceries on the ground floor and lower…
Headliner Ilis Some new restaurants are opportunistic, the result of circumstance. Others, like the Danish chef Mads Refslund’s new Brooklyn project, are years in the planning — eight years exactly, said Mr. Refslund, a founder of Noma in Copenhagen. What he set out to achieve is a fluid fine-dining concept, where the cooks are the…
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A still-warm brownie — chewy on the inside with a shiny, crackly top — and a glass of milk is the kind of after-school snack fantasy that never fades away. But how many times have I acted this out? Not nearly enough, despite my adult baking skills and the freedom to whip up a pan…
There are a lot of reasons to shop at Amazon, but even more reasons to shop when the October Prime Big Deal Days are happening—which is now, by the way. Yes, from October 10 through October 11, you can save a good chunk of money on everything from shapewear and jewelry to home décor, Apple…